Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants
Rising atmospheric CO2 often triggers the production of plant phenolics, including many that serve as herbivore deterrents, digestion reducers, antimicrobials, or ultraviolet sunscreens. Such responses are predicted by popular models of plant defense, especially resource availability models which li...
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Acetovanillone standard error Aeolian_archipelago Alkalinity total Aragonite saturation state Benthos Bicarbonate ion Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide CO2 vent Coast and continental shelf Coumaric acid Cymodocea nodosa Description Distance Event label EXP Experiment Ferulic acid Field experiment Field observation Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gallic acid Identification Immunology/Self-protection Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate MedSeA Mesocosm or benthocosm North Atlantic OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Arnold, Thomas Mealey, Christopher Leahey, Hannah Miller, A Whitman Hall-Spencer, Jason M Milazzo, Marco Maers, Kelly Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Acetovanillone standard error Aeolian_archipelago Alkalinity total Aragonite saturation state Benthos Bicarbonate ion Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide CO2 vent Coast and continental shelf Coumaric acid Cymodocea nodosa Description Distance Event label EXP Experiment Ferulic acid Field experiment Field observation Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gallic acid Identification Immunology/Self-protection Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate MedSeA Mesocosm or benthocosm North Atlantic OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) |
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Rising atmospheric CO2 often triggers the production of plant phenolics, including many that serve as herbivore deterrents, digestion reducers, antimicrobials, or ultraviolet sunscreens. Such responses are predicted by popular models of plant defense, especially resource availability models which link carbon availability to phenolic biosynthesis. CO2 availability is also increasing in the oceans, where anthropogenic emissions cause ocean acidification, decreasing seawater pH and shifting the carbonate system towards further CO2 enrichment. Such conditions tend to increase seagrass productivity but may also increase rates of grazing on these marine plants. Here we show that high CO2 / low pH conditions of OA decrease, rather than increase, concentrations of phenolic protective substances in seagrasses and eurysaline marine plants. We observed a loss of simple and polymeric phenolics in the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa near a volcanic CO2 vent on the Island of Vulcano, Italy, where pH values decreased from 8.1 to 7.3 and pCO2 concentrations increased ten-fold. We observed similar responses in two estuarine species, Ruppia maritima and Potamogeton perfoliatus, in in situ Free-Ocean-Carbon-Enrichment experiments conducted in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. These responses are strikingly different than those exhibited by terrestrial plants. The loss of phenolic substances may explain the higher-than-usual rates of grazing observed near undersea CO2 vents and suggests that ocean acidification may alter coastal carbon fluxes by affecting rates of decomposition, grazing, and disease. Our observations temper recent predictions that seagrasses would necessarily be "winners" in a high CO2 world. |
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Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants |
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Supplement to: Arnold, Thomas; Mealey, Christopher; Leahey, Hannah; Miller, A Whitman; Hall-Spencer, Jason M; Milazzo, Marco; Maers, Kelly (2012): Ocean Acidification and the Loss of Phenolic Substances in Marine Plants. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35107, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035107.t004 |
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Lavigne, Héloïse; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre (2011): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 2.4. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 |
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 2024-05-19T07:45:33+00:00 Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants Arnold, Thomas Mealey, Christopher Leahey, Hannah Miller, A Whitman Hall-Spencer, Jason M Milazzo, Marco Maers, Kelly MEDIAN LATITUDE: 38.548303 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -46.008570 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 38.167070 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -76.543940 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 39.058810 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 14.960870 * DATE/TIME START: 2010-05-01T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2011-07-31T00:00:00 2012 text/tab-separated-values, 497 data points https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 en eng PANGAEA Lavigne, Héloïse; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre (2011): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 2.4. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.829532 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Supplement to: Arnold, Thomas; Mealey, Christopher; Leahey, Hannah; Miller, A Whitman; Hall-Spencer, Jason M; Milazzo, Marco; Maers, Kelly (2012): Ocean Acidification and the Loss of Phenolic Substances in Marine Plants. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35107, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035107.t004 Acetovanillone standard error Aeolian_archipelago Alkalinity total Aragonite saturation state Benthos Bicarbonate ion Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide CO2 vent Coast and continental shelf Coumaric acid Cymodocea nodosa Description Distance Event label EXP Experiment Ferulic acid Field experiment Field observation Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gallic acid Identification Immunology/Self-protection Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate MedSeA Mesocosm or benthocosm North Atlantic OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Dataset 2012 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.82953210.1371/journal.pone.0035107.t004 2024-04-30T23:34:34Z Rising atmospheric CO2 often triggers the production of plant phenolics, including many that serve as herbivore deterrents, digestion reducers, antimicrobials, or ultraviolet sunscreens. Such responses are predicted by popular models of plant defense, especially resource availability models which link carbon availability to phenolic biosynthesis. CO2 availability is also increasing in the oceans, where anthropogenic emissions cause ocean acidification, decreasing seawater pH and shifting the carbonate system towards further CO2 enrichment. Such conditions tend to increase seagrass productivity but may also increase rates of grazing on these marine plants. Here we show that high CO2 / low pH conditions of OA decrease, rather than increase, concentrations of phenolic protective substances in seagrasses and eurysaline marine plants. We observed a loss of simple and polymeric phenolics in the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa near a volcanic CO2 vent on the Island of Vulcano, Italy, where pH values decreased from 8.1 to 7.3 and pCO2 concentrations increased ten-fold. We observed similar responses in two estuarine species, Ruppia maritima and Potamogeton perfoliatus, in in situ Free-Ocean-Carbon-Enrichment experiments conducted in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. These responses are strikingly different than those exhibited by terrestrial plants. The loss of phenolic substances may explain the higher-than-usual rates of grazing observed near undersea CO2 vents and suggests that ocean acidification may alter coastal carbon fluxes by affecting rates of decomposition, grazing, and disease. Our observations temper recent predictions that seagrasses would necessarily be "winners" in a high CO2 world. Dataset North Atlantic Ocean acidification PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science ENVELOPE(-76.543940,14.960870,39.058810,38.167070) |