Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification in the tropical urchin Echinometra viridis in a laboratory experiment, supplement to: Courtney, T; Westfield, Isaac T; Ries, Justin B (2013): CO2-induced ocean acidification impairs calcification in the tropical urchin Echinometra viridis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 440, 169-175

• Main Authors: Courtney, T, Westfield, Isaac T, Ries, Justin B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2013
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Echinodermata; Echinometra viridis; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; North Atlantic; Single species; Temperate; Temperature; Identification; Species; Treatment; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Buoyant weight; Dry mass; Calcification rate; Salinity; Salinity, standard error; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard error; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; pH; pH, standard error; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard error; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard error; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard error; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air, standard error; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard error; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Calcite saturation state; Coulometric titration; Potentiometric titration; Potentiometric; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.824707; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.824707

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (pCO2) has risen from approximately 280 to 400 ppm since the Industrial Revolution, due mainly to the combustion of fossil fuels, deforestation, and cement production. It is predicted to reach as high as 900 ppm by the end of this century. Ocean acidification resulting from the release of anthropogenic CO2 has been shown to impair the ability of some marine calcifiers to build their shells and skeletons. Here, we present the results of ocean acidification experiments designed to assess the effects of an increase in atmospheric pCO2 from ca. 448 to 827 ppm on calcification rates of the tropical urchin Echinometra viridis. Experiments were conducted under the urchin's winter (20 °C) and summer (30 °C) water temperatures in order to identify seasonal differences in the urchin's response to ocean acidification. The experiments reveal that calcification rates decreased for urchins reared under elevated pCO2, with the decline being more pronounced under wintertime temperatures than under summertime temperatures. These results indicate that the urchin E. viridis will be negatively impacted by CO2-induced ocean acidification that is predicted to occur by the end of this century. These results also suggest that impact of CO2-induced ocean acidification on urchin calcification will be more severe in the winter and in cooler waters. : 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 2013-12-18.