Seawater carbonate chemistry and predator–prey interactions of coral reef fish, supplement to: Allan, Bridie J M; Domenici, Paolo; Watson, Sue Ann; Munday, Philip L; McCormick, Mark I (2017): Warming has a greater effect than elevated CO2 on predator–prey interactions in coral reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 284(1857), 20170784

• Main Authors: Allan, Bridie J M, Domenici, Paolo, Watson, Sue Ann, Munday, Philip L, McCormick, Mark I
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2017
• Subjects: Animalia; Behaviour; Chordata; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Laboratory experiment; Nekton; Pelagos; Pomacentrus wardi; Pseudochromis fuscus; South Pacific; Species interaction; Temperature; Tropical; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Experiment duration; Treatment; Predator attack distance; Predator attack speed; Capture success; Prey reaction distance; Apparent looming threshold; Prey escape distance; Prey escape speed; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Salinity; pH; pH, standard error; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, 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; 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; 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.892529; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892529

Ocean acidification and warming, driven by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, are considered to be among the greatest threats facing marine organisms. While each stressor in isolation has been studied extensively, there has been less focus on their combined effects, which could impact key ecological processes. We tested the independent and combined effects of short-term exposure to elevated CO2 and temperature on the predator–prey interactions of a common pair of coral reef fishes (Pomacentrus wardi and its predator, Pseudochromis fuscus). We found that predator success increased following independent exposure to high temperature and elevated CO2. Overall, high temperature had an overwhelming effect on the escape behaviour of the prey compared with the combined exposure to elevated CO2 and high temperature or the independent effect of elevated CO2. Exposure to high temperatures led to an increase in attack and predation rates. By contrast, we observed little influence of elevated CO2 on the behaviour of the predator, suggesting that the attack behaviour of P. fuscus was robust to this environmental change. This is the first study to address how the kinematics and swimming performance at the basis of predator–prey interactions may change in response to concurrent exposure to elevated CO2 and high temperatures and represents an important step to forecasting the responses of interacting species to climate change. : 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 2018-07-12.