Data from: Parasitic infection: a buffer against ocean acidification?
Recently, there has been a concerted research effort by marine scientists to quantify the sensitivity of marine organisms to ocean acidification (OA). Empirical data generated by this research have been used to predict changes to marine ecosystem health, biodiversity and productivity that will be ca...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.112429 2023-05-15T17:49:46+02:00 Data from: Parasitic infection: a buffer against ocean acidification? MacLeod, Colin D. Poulin, Robert New Zealand 2016-03-24T16:09:42Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112429 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h8j57 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.h8j57/1 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0007 PMID:27194286 doi:10.5061/dryad.h8j57 MacLeod CD, Poulin R (2016) Parasitic infection: a buffer against ocean acidification? Biology Letters 12(5): 20160007. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112429 Ocean acidification parasite gastropod infection survival tolerance Article 2016 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h8j57 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h8j57/1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0007 2020-01-01T15:32:55Z Recently, there has been a concerted research effort by marine scientists to quantify the sensitivity of marine organisms to ocean acidification (OA). Empirical data generated by this research have been used to predict changes to marine ecosystem health, biodiversity and productivity that will be caused by continued acidification. These studies have also found that the effects of OA on marine organisms can be significantly modified by additional abiotic stressors (e.g. temperature or oxygen) and biotic interactions (e.g. competition or predation). To date, however, the effects of parasitic infection on the sensitivity of marine organisms to OA have been largely ignored. We show that parasitic infection significantly altered the response of a marine gastropod to simulated OA conditions by reducing the mortality of infected individuals relative to uninfected conspecifics. Without the inclusion of infection data, our analysis would not have detected the significant effect of pH on host mortality. These results strongly suggest that parasitic infection may be an important confounding factor in OA research and must be taken into consideration when assessing the response of marine species to OA. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) New Zealand |
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Recently, there has been a concerted research effort by marine scientists to quantify the sensitivity of marine organisms to ocean acidification (OA). Empirical data generated by this research have been used to predict changes to marine ecosystem health, biodiversity and productivity that will be caused by continued acidification. These studies have also found that the effects of OA on marine organisms can be significantly modified by additional abiotic stressors (e.g. temperature or oxygen) and biotic interactions (e.g. competition or predation). To date, however, the effects of parasitic infection on the sensitivity of marine organisms to OA have been largely ignored. We show that parasitic infection significantly altered the response of a marine gastropod to simulated OA conditions by reducing the mortality of infected individuals relative to uninfected conspecifics. Without the inclusion of infection data, our analysis would not have detected the significant effect of pH on host mortality. These results strongly suggest that parasitic infection may be an important confounding factor in OA research and must be taken into consideration when assessing the response of marine species to OA. |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.h8j57/1 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0007 PMID:27194286 doi:10.5061/dryad.h8j57 MacLeod CD, Poulin R (2016) Parasitic infection: a buffer against ocean acidification? Biology Letters 12(5): 20160007. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112429 |
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