Seawater carbonate chemistry and survival, larval development, shell growth and normal shell development of great scallop (Pecten maximus Lamarck), supplement to: Andersen, Sissel; Grefsrud, E S; Harboe, T (2017): Sensitivity towards elevated pCO2 in great scallop (Pecten maximus Lamarck) embryos and fed larvae. Biogeosciences, 14(3), 529-539

• Main Authors: Andersen, Sissel, Grefsrud, E S, Harboe, T
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2017
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Development; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; Pecten maximus; Single species; Temperate; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Experiment duration; Time in days; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Identification; Survival; Larvae; Replicates; Shell length; Shell length, standard deviation; Salinity; Temperature, water; Alkalinity, total; pH; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon dioxide; Aragonite saturation state; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Calcite saturation state; Potentiometric titration; Potentiometric; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Lamarck; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.880379; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.880379

The increasing amount of dissolved anthropogenic CO2 has caused a drop in pH values in the open ocean known as ocean acidification. This change in seawater carbonate chemistry has been shown to have a negative effect on a number of marine organisms. Early life stages are the most vulnerable, and especially the organisms that produce calcified structures in the phylum Mollusca. Few studies have looked at effects on scallops, and this is the first study presented including fed larvae of the great scallop (Pecten maximus) followed until day 14 post-fertilization. Fertilized eggs from unexposed parents were exposed to three levels of pCO2 using four replicate units: 465 (ambient), 768 and 1294 µatm, corresponding to pHNIST of 7.94, 7.75 (-0.19 units) and 7.54 (-0.40 units), respectively. All of the observed parameters were negatively affected by elevated pCO2: survival, larval development, shell growth and normal shell development. The latter was observed to be affected only 2 days after fertilization. Negative effects on the fed larvae at day 7 were similar to what was shown earlier for unfed P. maximus larvae. Growth rate in the group at 768?µatm seemed to decline after day 7, indicating that the ability to overcome the environmental change at moderately elevated pCO2 was lost over time. The present study shows that food availability does not decrease the sensitivity to elevated pCO2 in P. maximus larvae. Unless genetic adaptation and acclimatization counteract the negative effects of long term elevated pCO2, recruitment in populations of P. maximus will most likely be negatively affected by the projected drop of 0.06-0.32 units in pH within year 2100. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) 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 2017-08-31.