Wahl, Martin; Werner, Franziska Julie; Buchholz, Björn; Raddatz, Stefanie; Graiff, Angelika; Matthiessen, Birte; Karsten, Ulf; Hiebenthal, Claas; Hamer, Jorin; Ito, Maysa; Gülzow, Elisa; Rilov, Gil; Guy-Haim, Tamar; Yang, Yan (2023): Seawater carbonate chemistry and seasonal mesocosm community experiments with warming and acidification treatments in Kiel Outdoor Benthocosms [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959649
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Abstract:
The plea for using more “realistic,” community‐level, investigations to assess the ecological impacts of global change has recently intensified. Such experiments are typically more complex, longer, more expensive, and harder to interpret than simple organism‐level benchtop experiments. Are they worth the extra effort? Using outdoor mesocosms, we investigated the effects of ocean warming (OW) and acidification (OA), their combination (OAW), and their natural fluctuations on coastal communities of the western Baltic Sea during all four seasons. These communities are dominated by the perennial and canopy‐forming macrophyte Fucus vesiculosus—an important ecosystem engineer Baltic‐wide. We, additionally, assessed the direct response of organisms to temperature and pH in benchtop experiments, and examined how well organism‐level responses can predict community‐level responses to the dominant driver, OW. OW affected the mesocosm communities substantially stronger than acidification. OW provoked structural and functional shifts in the community that differed in strength and direction among seasons. The organism‐level response to OW matched well the community‐level response of a given species only under warm and cold thermal stress, that is, in summer and winter. In other seasons, shifts in biotic interactions masked the direct OW effects. The combination of direct OW effects and OW‐driven shifts of biotic interactions is likely to jeopardize the future of the habitat‐forming macroalga F. vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea. Furthermore, we conclude that seasonal mesocosm experiments are essential for our understanding of global change impact because they take into account the important fluctuations of abiotic and biotic pressures.
Keyword(s):
Asterias rubens; Balanus improvisus; Benthos; Coast and continental shelf; Community composition and diversity; Entire community; Fucus vesiculosus; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mesocosm or benthocosm; Mortality/Survival; Mytilus edulis; North Atlantic; Rocky-shore community; Temperate; Temperature
Supplement to:
Wahl, Martin; Werner, Franziska Julie; Buchholz, Björn; Raddatz, Stefanie; Graiff, Angelika; Matthiessen, Birte; Karsten, Ulf; Hiebenthal, Claas; Hamer, Jorin; Ito, Maysa; Gülzow, Elisa; Rilov, Gil; Guy-Haim, Tamar (2020): Season affects strength and direction of the interactive impacts of ocean warming and biotic stress in a coastal seaweed ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(4), 807-827, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11350
Source:
Wahl, Martin; Werner, Franziska Julie; Buchholz, Björn; Raddatz, Stefanie; Graiff, Angelika; Matthiessen, Birte; Karsten, Ulf; Hiebenthal, Claas; Hamer, Jorin; Ito, Maysa; Gülzow, Elisa; Rilov, Gil; Guy-Haim, Tamar (2019): Seasonal mesocosm community experiments with warming and acidification treatments in Kiel Outdoor Benthocosms. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907357
Documentation:
Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James; Gentili, Bernard; Hagens, Mathilde; Hofmann, Andreas; Mueller, Jens-Daniel; Proye, Aurélien; Rae, James; Soetaert, Karline (2022): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.3.1. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seacarb/index.html
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Comment:
In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2022) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2023-06-08.
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
1200 data points