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Melzner, Frank; Findeisen, Ulrike; Bock, Christian; Panknin, Ulrike; Kiko, Rainer; Hiebenthal, Claas; Lenz, Mark; Wall, Marlene (2022): Experiment on the response of the sea star Asterias rubens to heat stress and ocean acidification: experiment 2b: seawater-coelomic fluid PO2 gradients with slower warming [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.949423, In: Melzner, F et al. (2022): Response of the sea star Asterias rubens to heat stress and ocean acidification: long-term and short-term experimental data [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.949426

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Abstract:
Robust estimates of marine species vulnerability to ongoing climate change require realistic stressor experiments. Here, we subjected an important coastal predator, the sea star Asterias rubens, to projected warming and ocean acidification over an annual seasonal cycle. Warming and, less so, acidification, had strongly season-specific impacts on animal energy budgets. Specifically, simulated future summer temperatures caused >95% sea star mortality, reduced feeding rate and body mass loss. Additional acute experiments demonstrated that respiratory oxygen flux was preferentially directed to support high summer metabolism at the expense of feeding-related processes. Using 15 years of field temperature data and end of century warming projections, we estimate that potentially lethal summer heat waves will occur in 20% of future years. Our study demonstrates the importance of assessing stress responses along seasonal thermal cycles and the high selective force that future summer heat waves likely can exert on coastal marine animal populations.
Keyword(s):
Asterias rubens; Baltic Sea; oxygen diffusion; sea star; Temperature
Project(s):
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 27542298: Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. EXC 80: The Future Ocean
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 265847: Sub-seabed CO2 Storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems
Coverage:
Date/Time Start: 2019-08-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-08-20T00:00:00
Comment:
Figure S1D
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1ExperimentExpMelzner, Frank
2DATE/TIMEDate/TimeMelzner, FrankGeocode – sampling
3Temperature, waterTemp°CMelzner, Frank
4SalinitySalMelzner, Frankseawater
5Oxygen, partial pressurepO2kPaMelzner, Frankseawater
6TreatmentTreatMelzner, Frankspeed of thermal change
7Δ oxygen, partial pressureΔpO2kPaMelzner, Franksw-cf: seawater oxygen partial pressure minus coelomic fluid oxygen partial pressure
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
144 data points

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