Negligible effects of ocean acidification on Eurytemora affinis
Ocean acidification is caused by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide dissolving in the oceans leading to lower seawater pH. We studied the effects of lowered pH on the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis during a mesocosm experiment conducted in a coastal area of the Baltic Sea. We measured copepod...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.872440 2024-09-15T18:27:43+00:00 Negligible effects of ocean acidification on Eurytemora affinis Almén, Anna-Karin Vehmaa, Anu Brutemark, Andreas Bach, Lennart Thomas Lischka, Silke Stuhr, Annegret Furuhagen, Sara Paul, Allanah Joy Bermúdez Monsalve, Rafael Riebesell, Ulf Engström-Öst, Jonna LATITUDE: 59.858330 * LONGITUDE: 23.258330 * DATE/TIME START: 2012-06-12T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2012-06-12T00:00:00 2016 application/zip, 4 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.872440 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.872440 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.872440 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.872440 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Supplement to: Almén, Anna-Karin; Vehmaa, Anu; Brutemark, Andreas; Bach, Lennart Thomas; Lischka, Silke; Stuhr, Annegret; Furuhagen, Sara; Paul, Allanah Joy; Bermúdez Monsalve, Rafael; Riebesell, Ulf; Engström-Öst, Jonna (2016): Negligible effects of ocean acidification on Eurytemora affinis (Copepoda) offspring production. Biogeosciences, 13(4), 1037-1048, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1037-2016 BIOACID Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification KOSMOS_2012_Tvaerminne MESO Mesocosm experiment SOPRAN Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene dataset publication series 2016 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.87244010.5194/bg-13-1037-2016 2024-07-24T02:31:21Z Ocean acidification is caused by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide dissolving in the oceans leading to lower seawater pH. We studied the effects of lowered pH on the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis during a mesocosm experiment conducted in a coastal area of the Baltic Sea. We measured copepod reproductive success as a function of pH, chlorophyll a concentration, diatom and dinoflagellate biomass, carbon to nitrogen (C : N) ratio of suspended particulate organic matter, as well as copepod fatty acid composition. The laboratory-based experiment was repeated four times during 4 consecutive weeks, with water and copepods sampled from pelagic mesocosms enriched with different CO2 concentrations. In addition, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) of animals from the mesocosms was measured weekly to test whether the copepod's defence against oxidative stress was affected by pH. We found no effect of pH on offspring production. Phytoplankton biomass, as indicated by chlorophyll a concentration and dinoflagellate biomass, had a positive effect. The concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the females was reflected in the eggs and had a positive effect on offspring production whereas monounsaturated fatty acids of the females were reflected in their eggs but had no significant effect. ORAC was not affected by pH. From these experiments we conclude that E. affinis seems robust against direct exposure to ocean acidification on a physiological level, for the variables covered in the study. E. affinis may not have faced acute pH stress in the treatments as the species naturally face large pH fluctuations. Other/Unknown Material Ocean acidification Copepods PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science ENVELOPE(23.258330,23.258330,59.858330,59.858330) |
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Ocean acidification is caused by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide dissolving in the oceans leading to lower seawater pH. We studied the effects of lowered pH on the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis during a mesocosm experiment conducted in a coastal area of the Baltic Sea. We measured copepod reproductive success as a function of pH, chlorophyll a concentration, diatom and dinoflagellate biomass, carbon to nitrogen (C : N) ratio of suspended particulate organic matter, as well as copepod fatty acid composition. The laboratory-based experiment was repeated four times during 4 consecutive weeks, with water and copepods sampled from pelagic mesocosms enriched with different CO2 concentrations. In addition, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) of animals from the mesocosms was measured weekly to test whether the copepod's defence against oxidative stress was affected by pH. We found no effect of pH on offspring production. Phytoplankton biomass, as indicated by chlorophyll a concentration and dinoflagellate biomass, had a positive effect. The concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the females was reflected in the eggs and had a positive effect on offspring production whereas monounsaturated fatty acids of the females were reflected in their eggs but had no significant effect. ORAC was not affected by pH. From these experiments we conclude that E. affinis seems robust against direct exposure to ocean acidification on a physiological level, for the variables covered in the study. E. affinis may not have faced acute pH stress in the treatments as the species naturally face large pH fluctuations. |
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Almén, Anna-Karin Vehmaa, Anu Brutemark, Andreas Bach, Lennart Thomas Lischka, Silke Stuhr, Annegret Furuhagen, Sara Paul, Allanah Joy Bermúdez Monsalve, Rafael Riebesell, Ulf Engström-Öst, Jonna |
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Negligible effects of ocean acidification on Eurytemora affinis |
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Supplement to: Almén, Anna-Karin; Vehmaa, Anu; Brutemark, Andreas; Bach, Lennart Thomas; Lischka, Silke; Stuhr, Annegret; Furuhagen, Sara; Paul, Allanah Joy; Bermúdez Monsalve, Rafael; Riebesell, Ulf; Engström-Öst, Jonna (2016): Negligible effects of ocean acidification on Eurytemora affinis (Copepoda) offspring production. Biogeosciences, 13(4), 1037-1048, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1037-2016 |
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