Table_1_Ocean acidification research in the Mediterranean Sea: Status, trends and next steps.xlsx

• Main Authors: El Rahman Hassoun, Abed, Bantelman, Ashley, Canu, Donata, Corneau, Steeve, Galdies, Charles, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre, Giani, Michele, Grelaud, Michael, Hendriks, Iris E., Ibello, Valeria, Idrissi, Mohammed, Krasakopoulou, Evangelia, Shaltout, Nayrah, Solidoro, Cosimo, Swarzenski, Peter W., Ziveri, Patrizia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Figshare 2022
• Subjects: Ocean acidification; Mediterranean Sea; Socio-economy; Policies; Climate change; UN ocean decade
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/330437; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.892670.s001

1 table. -- Excel file includes multiple sheets. -- Original file: contains the originally extracted articles from the OA-ICC database. it contains 564 items with many duplications and articles not related to the Mediterranean. -- Edited file: Missing items from the OA-ICC database (without key) were added. The duplications, non-Mediterranean and non-existent items were removed. We have 534 items as a final outcome. Ocean acidification (OA) is a serious consequence of climate change with complex organism-to-ecosystem effects that have been observed through field observations but are mainly derived from experimental studies. Although OA trends and the resulting biological impacts are likely exacerbated in the semi-enclosed and highly populated Mediterranean Sea, some fundamental knowledge gaps still exist. These gaps are at tributed to both the uneven capacity for OA research that exists between Mediterranean countries, as well as to the subtle and long-term biological, physical and chemical interactions that define OA impacts. In this paper, we systematically analyzed the different aspects of OA research in the Mediterranean region based on two sources: the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC) database, and an extensive survey. Our analysis shows that 1) there is an uneven geographic capacity in OA research, and illustrates that both the Algero-Provencal and Ionian sub-basins are currently the least studied Mediterranean areas, 2) the carbonate system is still poorly quantified in coastal zones, and long-term time-series are still sparse across the Mediterranean Sea, which is a challenge for studying its variability and assessing coastal OA trends, 3) the most studied groups of organisms are autotrophs (algae, phanerogams, phytoplankton), mollusks, and corals, while microbes, small mollusks (mainly pteropods), and sponges are among the least studied, 4) there is an overall paucity in socio-economic, paleontological, and ...