Elevated CO2 levels do not affect the shell structure of the bivalve Arctica islandica from the western Baltic, supplement to: Stemmer, Kristina; Nehrke, Gernot; Brey, Thomas (2013): Elevated CO2 Levels do not Affect the Shell Structure of the Bivalve Arctica islandica from the Western Baltic. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e70106

• Main Authors: Stemmer, Kristina, Nehrke, Gernot, Brey, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2013
• Subjects: Animalia; Arctica islandica; Baltic Sea; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria <20 L; Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Single species; Temperate; Species; Identification; Sample code/label; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Calcein mark; Growth rate; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Salinity; Salinity, standard deviation; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard deviation; pH; pH, standard deviation; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Calcite saturation state; 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.835309; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.835309

Shells of the bivalve Arctica islandica are used to reconstruct paleo-environmental conditions (e.g. temperature) via biogeochemical proxies, i.e. biogenic components that are related closely to environmental parameters at the time of shell formation. Several studies have shown that proxies like element and isotope-ratios can be affected by shell growth and microstructure. Thus it is essential to evaluate the impact of changing environmental parameters such as high pCO2 and consequent changes in carbonate chemistry on shell properties to validate these biogeochemical proxies for a wider range of environmental conditions. Growth experiments with Arctica islandica from the Western Baltic Sea kept under different pCO2 levels (from 380 to 1120 µatm) indicate no affect of elevated pCO2 on shell growth or crystal microstructure, indicating that A. islandica shows an adaptation to a wider range of pCO2 levels than reported for other species. Accordingly, proxy information derived from A. islandica shells of this region contains no pCO2 related bias. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne et al, 2014) 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 is 2014-08-26.