Seawater carbonate chemistry, survival rate, shell mass growth, shell dissolution and locomotory speed of Limacina retroversa in a laboratory experiment

• Main Authors: Manno, Clara, Morata, Nathalie, Primicerio, Raul
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Beat rate; Behaviour; Bicarbonate ion; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Calcification/Dissolution; 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; Coast and continental shelf; Dilution; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Group; Growth; Growth/Morphology; Identification; Kvalsundet; Laboratory experiment; Limacina retroversa; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Pelagos; Percentage; pH; Polar; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Replicate; Salinity; Single species; Species; Speed; swimming; Survival; Temperature; Norwegian Sea; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831100; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831100

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions induce ocean acidification, thereby reducing carbonate ion concentration, which may affect the ability of calcifying organisms to build shells. Pteropods, the main planktonic producers of aragonite in the worlds' oceans, may be particularly vulnerable to c...