Seawater carbonate chemistry and biological parameters during experiments with white sea bass Atractoscion nobilis, 2009, supplement to: Checkley, David M; Dickson, Andrew G; Takahashi, Motomitsu; Radich, J Adam; Eisenkolb, Nadine; Asch, Rebecca (2009): Elevated CO2 enhances otolith growth in young fish. Science, 324(5935), 1683

• Main Authors: Checkley, David M, Dickson, Andrew G, Takahashi, Motomitsu, Radich, J Adam, Eisenkolb, Nadine, Asch, Rebecca
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2009
• Subjects: Animalia; Atractoscion nobilis; Behaviour; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria <20 L; Chordata; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Laboratory strains; Nekton; Not applicable; Pelagos; Single species; Experimental treatment; Salinity; Temperature, water; LightDark cycle; Carbonate system computation flag; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Alkalinity, total; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Aragonite saturation state; pH; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Calcite saturation state; Age; Atractoscion nobilis, otoliths; Atractoscion nobilis, orientation; Atractoscion nobilis, otolith area; Atractoscion nobilis, dry mass; Experiment; Measured; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Calculated using CO2SYS; Image analysis NIH ImageJ; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis EUR-OCEANS; European Project on Ocean Acidification EPOCA; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; White Sea; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.728723; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.728723

A large fraction of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by human activity enters the sea, causing ocean acidification. We show that otoliths (aragonite ear bones) of young fish grown under high CO2 (low pH) conditions are larger than normal, contrary to expectation. We hypothesize that CO2 moves freely through the epithelium around the otoliths in young fish, accelerating otolith growth while the local pH is controlled. This is the converse of the effect commonly reported for structural biominerals. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011) 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).