Seawater carbonate chemistry and larval shell development and growth of marine bivalve

Ocean acidification results in co-varying inorganic carbon system variables. Of these, an explicit focus on pH and organismal acid–base regulation has failed to distinguish the mechanism of failure in highly sensitive bivalve larvae. With unique chemical manipulations of seawater we show definitivel...

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Main Authors: Waldbusser, George G, Hales, Burke, Langdon, Chris, Haley, Brian A, Schrader, Paul, Brunner, Elizabeth L, Gray, Matthew W, Miller, Cale A, Gimenez, Iria
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2015
Subjects:
pH
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.934173
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.934173
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Summary:Ocean acidification results in co-varying inorganic carbon system variables. Of these, an explicit focus on pH and organismal acid–base regulation has failed to distinguish the mechanism of failure in highly sensitive bivalve larvae. With unique chemical manipulations of seawater we show definitively that larval shell development and growth are dependent on seawater saturation state, and not on carbon dioxide partial pressure or pH. Although other physiological processes are affected by pH, mineral saturation state thresholds will be crossed decades to centuries ahead of pH thresholds owing to nonlinear changes in the carbonate system variables as carbon dioxide is added. Our findings were repeatable for two species of bivalve larvae could resolve discrepancies in experimental results, are consistent with a previous model of ocean acidification impacts due to rapid calcification in bivalve larvae, and suggest a fundamental ocean acidification bottleneck at early life-history for some marine keystone species. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2021) 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 2021-07-28.