Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH
Ocean acidification threatens many ecologically and economically important marine calcifiers. The increase in shell dissolution under the resulting reduced pH is an important and increasingly recognized threat. The biocomposites that make up calcified hardparts have a range of taxon-specific composi...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6599774 2023-05-15T17:51:18+02:00 Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH Chadwick, Matthew Harper, Elizabeth M. Lemasson, Anaëlle Spicer, John I. Peck, Lloyd S. 2019-06-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599774/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312491 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190252 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599774/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190252 © 2019 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Biology (Whole Organism) Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190252 2019-07-21T00:13:06Z Ocean acidification threatens many ecologically and economically important marine calcifiers. The increase in shell dissolution under the resulting reduced pH is an important and increasingly recognized threat. The biocomposites that make up calcified hardparts have a range of taxon-specific compositions and microstructures, and it is evident that these may influence susceptibilities to dissolution. Here, we show how dissolution (thickness loss), under both ambient and predicted end-century pH (approx. 7.6), varies between seven different bivalve molluscs and one crustacean biocomposite and investigate how this relates to details of their microstructure and composition. Over 100 days, the dissolution of all microstructures was greater under the lower pH in the end-century conditions. Dissolution of lobster cuticle was greater than that of any bivalve microstructure, despite its calcite mineralogy, showing the importance of other microstructural characteristics besides carbonate polymorph. Organic content had the strongest positive correlation with dissolution when all microstructures were considered, and together with Mg/Ca ratio, explained 80–90% of the variance in dissolution. Organic content, Mg/Ca ratio, crystal density and mineralogy were all required to explain the maximum variance in dissolution within only bivalve microstructures, but still only explained 50–60% of the variation in dissolution. Text Ocean acidification PubMed Central (PMC) Royal Society Open Science 6 6 190252 |
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Ocean acidification threatens many ecologically and economically important marine calcifiers. The increase in shell dissolution under the resulting reduced pH is an important and increasingly recognized threat. The biocomposites that make up calcified hardparts have a range of taxon-specific compositions and microstructures, and it is evident that these may influence susceptibilities to dissolution. Here, we show how dissolution (thickness loss), under both ambient and predicted end-century pH (approx. 7.6), varies between seven different bivalve molluscs and one crustacean biocomposite and investigate how this relates to details of their microstructure and composition. Over 100 days, the dissolution of all microstructures was greater under the lower pH in the end-century conditions. Dissolution of lobster cuticle was greater than that of any bivalve microstructure, despite its calcite mineralogy, showing the importance of other microstructural characteristics besides carbonate polymorph. Organic content had the strongest positive correlation with dissolution when all microstructures were considered, and together with Mg/Ca ratio, explained 80–90% of the variance in dissolution. Organic content, Mg/Ca ratio, crystal density and mineralogy were all required to explain the maximum variance in dissolution within only bivalve microstructures, but still only explained 50–60% of the variation in dissolution. |
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Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH |
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Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH |
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Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH |
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Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH |
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