Seawater carbonate chemistry, length and survival of Inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, during experiments, 2012, supplement to: Baumann, Hannes; Talmage, Stephanie C; Gobler, Christopher J (2012): Reduced early life growth and survival in a fish in direct response to increased carbon dioxide. Nature Climate Change, 2, 38-41

• Main Authors: Baumann, Hannes, Talmage, Stephanie C, Gobler, Christopher J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2011
• Subjects: Animalia; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria <20 L; Chordata; Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Menidia beryllina; Mortality/Survival; Nekton; North Atlantic; Pelagos; Single species; Temperate; Identification; Experimental treatment; Salinity; Salinity, standard deviation; Temperature, water; Temperature, standard deviation; pH; pH, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Carbon dioxide, partial pressure, standard deviation; Calcite saturation state; Calcite saturation state, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard deviation; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Menidia beryllina, length; Menidia beryllina, length, standard devitation; Sample ID; Survival; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; pH meter Orion; Calculated using CO2SYS; Measured; Calculated; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis EUR-OCEANS; European Project on Ocean Acidification EPOCA; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Hannes; Orion; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.773850; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.773850

Absorption of anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the world's oceans is causing mankind's 'other CO2 problem', ocean acidification. Although this process will challenge marine organisms that synthesize calcareous exoskeletons or shells, it is unclear how it will affect internally calcifying organisms, such as marine fish. Adult fish tolerate short-term exposures to CO2 levels that exceed those predicted for the next 300 years (~2,000 ppm), but potential effects of increased CO2 on growth and survival during the early life stages of fish remain poorly understood. Here we show that the exposure of early life stages of a common estuarine fish (Menidia beryllina) to CO2 concentrations expected in the world's oceans later this century caused severely reduced survival and growth rates. When compared with present-day CO2 levels (~400 ppm), exposure of M. beryllina embryos to ~1,000 ppm until one week post-hatch reduced average survival and length by 74% and 18%, respectively. The egg stage was significantly more vulnerable to high CO2-induced mortality than the post-hatch larval stage. These findings challenge the belief that ocean acidification will not affect fish populations, because even small changes in early life survival can generate large fluctuations in adult-fish abundance. : 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).