Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts
Ocean acidification has become one of the most intensively studied climate change topics and it is expected to have both direct and indirect impacts on species, ecosystems, and economies. Experiments have been performed on different taxa, life stages, and at different pH levels. Despite this wealth...
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ftplymouthml:oai:plymsea.ac.uk:9823 2024-01-14T10:09:39+01:00 Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts Townhill, BL Artioli, Y Pinnegar, JK Birchenough, SNR Browman, HI 2022-10-17 text https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/ https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/1/Townhill%26al_ICESJMS_2022_OAcommercial.pdf https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177 en eng Oxford Academic https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/1/Townhill%26al_ICESJMS_2022_OAcommercial.pdf Townhill, BL, Artioli, Y, Pinnegar, JK, Birchenough, SNR and Browman, HI 2022 Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177 <https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177> cc_by_4 Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2022 ftplymouthml https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177 2023-12-15T00:08:17Z Ocean acidification has become one of the most intensively studied climate change topics and it is expected to have both direct and indirect impacts on species, ecosystems, and economies. Experiments have been performed on different taxa, life stages, and at different pH levels. Despite this wealth of information, several key challenges remain, including (1) uncertainty about how to incorporate current pH ranges and variability experienced by organisms into experiments, and (2) how to bring this information together to support analysis and assessments at the broader ecosystem level. Sophisticated modelling tools are needed to ‘scale-up’ from experimental results to regional-scale insights. This paper highlights the challenges of combining information to determine how commercially exploited species may be affected under future pH levels, and how modelling and experimental results might be better aligned, using northwest Europe and the waters around the British Isles as an example. We argue that in most cases the current evidence does not offer sufficient information into impacts at projected pH levels, and that future experiments should be designed to consider the pH levels actually experienced by organisms, as well as variability in pH. These types of study are key in safeguarding commercially exploited shellfish stocks. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Plymouth Marine Science Electronic Archive (PlyMSEA - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML) ICES Journal of Marine Science 79 9 2362 2372 |
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Ocean acidification has become one of the most intensively studied climate change topics and it is expected to have both direct and indirect impacts on species, ecosystems, and economies. Experiments have been performed on different taxa, life stages, and at different pH levels. Despite this wealth of information, several key challenges remain, including (1) uncertainty about how to incorporate current pH ranges and variability experienced by organisms into experiments, and (2) how to bring this information together to support analysis and assessments at the broader ecosystem level. Sophisticated modelling tools are needed to ‘scale-up’ from experimental results to regional-scale insights. This paper highlights the challenges of combining information to determine how commercially exploited species may be affected under future pH levels, and how modelling and experimental results might be better aligned, using northwest Europe and the waters around the British Isles as an example. We argue that in most cases the current evidence does not offer sufficient information into impacts at projected pH levels, and that future experiments should be designed to consider the pH levels actually experienced by organisms, as well as variability in pH. These types of study are key in safeguarding commercially exploited shellfish stocks. |
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Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts |
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Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts |
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Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts |
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Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts |
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exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing ph levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts |
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https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/ https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/1/Townhill%26al_ICESJMS_2022_OAcommercial.pdf https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177 |
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https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/1/Townhill%26al_ICESJMS_2022_OAcommercial.pdf Townhill, BL, Artioli, Y, Pinnegar, JK, Birchenough, SNR and Browman, HI 2022 Exposure of commercially exploited shellfish to changing pH levels: how to scale-up experimental evidence to regional impacts. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177 <https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac177> |
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