The impact of ocean acidification on the early life stages of surf clams and the interactive effects of feeding and temperature from laboratory experiment studies from 2011-07-12 to 2012-06-17 (NCEI Accession 0123314) ...

• Main Authors: Milke, Lisa M., McCorkle, Daniel, Cohen, Anne, Widman, James C.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2014
• Subjects: Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7289/v56h4fcz; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123314

This dataset contains laboratory experiment data that were collected to examine the effects of ocean acidification on the Atlantic surfclam, Spisula solidissima, a species worth $31 million in 2009. Ocean acidification has negatively impacted growth and survival of multiple bivalve species, but because each species and developmental stage can show different responses, these studies were designed to determine potential impacts of increased CO2 on the larvae of the commercially important surfclam. Additionally, the role of nutrition (i.e., phytoplankton concentration) was included in a portion of these experiments because food availability may be able to mitigate the stress of ocean acidification and because ocean acidification has the potential to impact marine phytoplankton communities. During the summer of 2011, three different experiments were conducted at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution examining the effects of three different pCO2 concentrations on larval surf clams. Two short term experiments ...