Increased fitness of a key appendicularian zooplankton species under warmer, acidified seawater conditions

• Main Authors: Bouquet, Jean-Marie, Troedsson, Christofer, Novac, Aliona, Reeve, Magnus, Lechtenbörger, Anna K, Massart, Wendy, Skaar, Katrine S, Aasjord, Anne, Dupont, Sam, Thompson, Eric M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthos; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Chordata; Coast and continental shelf; Development; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mesocosm or benthocosm; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Oikopleura dioica; Reproduction; Single species; Temperate; Temperature; Zooplankton; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.891075; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891075

Ocean warming and acidification (OA) may alter the fitness of species in marine pelagic ecosystems through community effects or direct physiological impacts. We used the zooplanktonic appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica, to assess temperature and pH effects at mesocosm and microcosm scales. In mesoco...