Seawater carbonate chemistry and biological parameters during experiments with white sea bass Atractoscion nobilis, 2009

A large fraction of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by human activity enters the sea, causing ocean acidification. We show that otoliths (aragonite ear bones) of young fish grown under high CO2 (low pH) conditions are larger than normal, contrary to expectation. We hypothesize that CO2 mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Checkley, David M, Dickson, Andrew G, Takahashi, Motomitsu, Radich, J Adam, Eisenkolb, Nadine, Asch, Rebecca
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2009
Subjects:
Alkalinity
total
Animalia
Aragonite saturation state
Atractoscion nobilis
dry mass
larval age
orientation
otolith area
Behaviour
Bicarbonate ion
Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition
Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L)
Calcite saturation state
Calculated using CO2SYS
Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
Carbon
inorganic
dissolved
Carbonate ion
Carbonate system computation flag
Carbon dioxide
Checkley_etal_09
Chordata
EPOCA
EUR-OCEANS
European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis
European Project on Ocean Acidification
EXP
Experiment
Experimental treatment
Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)
Growth/Morphology
Image analysis NIH ImageJ
Laboratory experiment
Laboratory strains
Light:Dark cycle
Measured
Nekton
Not applicable
OA-ICC
Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre
Otolith
Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)
Pelagos
pH
White Sea
Ocean acidification
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.728723
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728723
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Summary:A large fraction of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by human activity enters the sea, causing ocean acidification. We show that otoliths (aragonite ear bones) of young fish grown under high CO2 (low pH) conditions are larger than normal, contrary to expectation. We hypothesize that CO2 moves freely through the epithelium around the otoliths in young fish, accelerating otolith growth while the local pH is controlled. This is the converse of the effect commonly reported for structural biominerals.

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