Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification during incubation experiments with Mytilus edulis and Grassostrea gigas, 2006

• Main Authors: Gazeau, Frédéric, Quiblier, Christophe, Jansen, Jeroen M, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre, Middelburg, Jack J, Heip, Carlo H R
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: Alkalinity; Gran titration (Gran; 1950); total; Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key; 1975); Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Brackish waters; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Calcite saturation state; Calculated; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Crassostrea gigas; EPOCA; EUR-OCEANS; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis; European Project on Ocean Acidification; Event label; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Gazeau_etal_07/T1-Me; Gazeau_etal_07/T2-Gg; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Mytilus edulis; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Electrode; Salinity; Single species; Temperate; Temperature; Ocean acidification; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.718130; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.718130

Ocean acidification resulting from human emissions of carbon dioxide has already lowered and will further lower surface ocean pH. The consequent decrease in calcium carbonate saturation potentially threatens calcareous marine organisms. Here, we demonstrate that the calcification rates of the edible mussel (Mytilus edulis) and Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) decline linearly with increasing pCO2. Mussel and oyster calcification may decrease by 25 and 10%, respectively, by the end of the century, following the IPCC IS92a scenario (?740 ppmv in 2100). Moreover, mussels dissolve at pCO2 values exceeding a threshold value of ?1800 ppmv. As these two species are important ecosystem engineers in coastal ecosystems and represent a large part of worldwide aquaculture production, the predicted decrease of calcification in response to ocean acidification will probably have an impact on coastal biodiversity and ecosystem functioning as well as potentially lead to significant economic loss.