Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high-CO2 oceans

• Main Authors: Garilli, Vittorio, Rodolfo-Metalpa, Riccardo, Scuderi, Danilo, Brusca, Lorenzo, Parrinello, Daniela, Rastrick, S P S, Foggo, A, Twitchett, Richard J, Hall-Spencer, Jason M, Milazzo, Marco
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard deviation; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; 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; CO2 vent; Coast and continental shelf; Cyclope neritea; EXP; Experiment; Field observation; Figure; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Height; Height/width ratio; Identification; Laboratory experiment; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Mediterranean Sea; Mollusca; Month; Nassarius corniculus; OA-ICC; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847397; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.847397

Excessive CO2 in the present-day ocean-atmosphere system is causing ocean acidification, and is likely to cause a severe biodiversity decline in the future, mirroring effects in many past mass extinctions. Fossil records demonstrate that organisms surviving such events were often smaller than those...