Seawater carbonate chemistry and length, weight, survival rate, metabolic rate of coral reef fish Amphiprion melanopus in a laboratory experiment, supplement to: Miller, Garielle M; Watson, Sue-Ann; Donelson, Jennifer M; McCormick, Mark I; Munday, Philip L (2012): Parental environment mediates impacts of increased carbon dioxide on a coral reef fish. Nature Climate Change, 2(12), 858-861

• Main Authors: Miller, Garielle M, Watson, Sue-Ann, Donelson, Jennifer M, McCormick, Mark I, Munday, Philip L
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2012
• Subjects: Amphiprion melanopus; Animalia; Chordata; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mortality/Survival; Nekton; Pelagos; Respiration; Single species; South Pacific; Tropical; Species; Treatment; Length, standard; Length, standard error; Mass; Mass, standard error; Survival; Respiration rate, oxygen; Respiration rate, oxygen, standard deviation; Salinity; Temperature, water; Temperature, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; pH; pH, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Calculated; Potentiometric titration; Potentiometric; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; McCormick; Pacific; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.823152; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.823152

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the surface ocean are increasing owing to rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Higher CO2 levels are predicted to affect essential physiological processes of many aquatic organisms, leading to widespread impacts on marine diversity and ecosystem function, especially when combined with the effects of global warming. Yet the ability for marine species to adjust to increasing CO2 levels over many generations is an unresolved issue. Here we show that ocean conditions projected for the end of the century (approximately 1,000 µatm CO2 and a temperature rise of 1.5-3.0 °C) cause an increase in metabolic rate and decreases in length, weight, condition and survival of juvenile fish. However, these effects are absent or reversed when parents also experience high CO2 concentrations. Our results show that non-genetic parental effects can dramatically alter the response of marine organisms to increasing CO2 and demonstrate that some species have more capacity to acclimate to ocean acidification than previously thought. : 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). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2013-11-21.