Data from: Ocean acidification boosts larval fish development but reduces the window of opportunity for successful settlement ...

• Main Authors: Rossi, Tullio, Nagelkerken, Ivan, Simpson, Stephen D., Pistevos, Jennifer C.A., Watson, Sue-Ann, Merillet, Laurene, Fraser, Peter, Munday, Philip L., Connell, Sean D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: audition; orientation; Lates calcarifer; mangrove; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2cf6s; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2cf6s

Locating appropriate settlement habitat is a crucial step in the life cycle of most benthic marine animals. In marine fish, this step involves the use of multiple senses, including audition, olfaction and vision. To date, most investigations of fish audition focus on the hearing thresholds to various frequencies of sounds without testing an ecological response to such sounds. Identifying responses to biologically relevant sounds at the development stage in which orientation is most relevant is fundamental. We test for the existence of ontogenetic windows of reception to sounds that can act as orientation cues with a focus on vulnerability to alteration by human impacts. Here we show that larvae of a catadromous fish species (barramundi, Lates calcarifer) are attracted towards sounds from settlement habitat during a surprisingly short ontogenetic window of ~3 days. Yet, this auditory preference is reversed in larvae reared under end-of-century levels of elevated CO2, such that larvae are repelled from cues of ... : Dataset TRossi Proc B - barramundi behaviour, development and water chemsitryThe excel file contains 5 sheets. Each sheet contains the data used for a specific figure in the manuscript. The name of the sheet identifies which figure the data represent (Fig. 1A,1B,2,3). The last sheet contains the water chemistry data reported in table 1.Dataset TRossi repository Proc B.xlsx ...