Natural high pCO2 increases autotrophy in Anemonia viridis (Anthozoa) as revealed from stable isotope (C, N) analysis, supplement to: Horwitz, Rael; Borell, Esther M; Yam, Ruth; Shemesh, Aldo; Fine, Maoz (2015): Natural high pCO2 increases autotrophy in Anemonia viridis (Anthozoa) as revealed from stable isotope (C, N) analysis. Scientific Reports, 5, 8779

• Main Authors: Horwitz, Rael, Borell, Esther M, Yam, Ruth, Shemesh, Aldo, Fine, Maoz
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2015
• Subjects: Anemonia viridis; Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Cnidaria; CO2 vent; Coast and continental shelf; Field observation; Mediterranean Sea; Single species; Symbiodinium sp.; Temperate; Species; Figure; Site; Sample ID; Absolute protein content; Wet mass; Proteins, total; Symbiont cell density; Chlorophyll a per cell; Mitotic index; δ13C; δ18O; δ15N; Carbon/Nitrogen ratio; Salinity; pH; pH, standard deviation; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Esther; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.846688; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.846688

Contemporary cnidarian-algae symbioses are challenged by increasing CO2 concentrations (ocean warming and acidification) affecting organisms' biological performance. We examined the natural variability of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the symbiotic sea anemone Anemonia viridis to investigate...