Impact of short- and long-term exposure to elevated seawater pCO2 on metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance in Octopus rubescens ...

• Main Authors: Onthank, Kirt, Trueblood, Lloyd, Schrock-Duff, Taylir, Kore, Lydia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrj8; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrj8

Much of the CO2 released by human activity into the atmosphere is dissolving into the oceans making them more acidic. In this study we provide the first data on the short- and long-term impacts of ocean acidification on octopuses. We measured routine metabolic rate (RMR) and critical oxygen pressure (Pcrit) of Octopus rubescens at elevated CO2 pressure (pCO2) with no prior acclimation, one, and five weeks acclimation. Octopuses showed significantly higher RMRs in 1500 μatm pCO2 environments with no prior acclimation than octopuses in 700 μatm or 360 μatm environments. However, both one and five weeks of acclimation showed no significant difference in RMRs between octopuses at differing pCO2, indicating that octopuses acclimated rapidly to elevated pCO2. In octopuses acclimated for five weeks at 1500 μatm pCO2 we observed impaired hypoxia tolerance as demonstrated by a significantly higher critical oxygen pressure than those acclimated to 700 μatm pCO2. Our findings suggest that O. rubescens experiences ... : This data provides the analysis and datasets to replicate the statistical analyses and figures that appear in the paper "Impact of short- and long-term exposure to elevated seawater pCO2 on metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance in Octopus rubescens", as well as some additional figures that more fully explain analyses such as semivariograms and test statistic distributions. To run critical oxygen pressure measurements analyses you will need the raw data contained in "Pcrit_data.zip" and the code contained in "Pcrit_Analysis.pdf". This will write a .csv file of Pcrit values that will be used the further analysis. For the remainder of the analyses, you will need the code contained in "Octopus_hydpercapnia.pdf" or alternatively in "Octopus_hypercapnia.Rmd", and you will need the data contained in "GPS_waypoints.zip", "Seawater_ph_2015.csv", "treatment_carbonate2014.csv", "Short_Term_RMR_2014.csv", "Long_Term_RMR_2014.csv", and "Pcrit_2014.csv". ...