How calorie-rich food could help marine calcifiers in a CO(2)-rich future
Increasing carbon emissions not only enrich oceans with CO(2) but also make them more acidic. This acidifying process has caused considerable concern because laboratory studies show that ocean acidification impairs calcification (or shell building) and survival of calcifiers by the end of this centu...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6650713 2023-05-15T17:49:42+02:00 How calorie-rich food could help marine calcifiers in a CO(2)-rich future Leung, Jonathan Y. S. Doubleday, Zoë A. Nagelkerken, Ivan Chen, Yujie Xie, Zonghan Connell, Sean D. 2019-07-10 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650713/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31288703 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0757 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650713/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31288703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0757 © 2019 The Author(s) http://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Proc Biol Sci Ecology Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0757 2020-07-12T00:15:27Z Increasing carbon emissions not only enrich oceans with CO(2) but also make them more acidic. This acidifying process has caused considerable concern because laboratory studies show that ocean acidification impairs calcification (or shell building) and survival of calcifiers by the end of this century. Whether this impairment in shell building also occurs in natural communities remains largely unexplored, but requires re-examination because of the recent counterintuitive finding that populations of calcifiers can be boosted by CO(2) enrichment. Using natural CO(2) vents, we found that ocean acidification resulted in the production of thicker, more crystalline and more mechanically resilient shells of a herbivorous gastropod, which was associated with the consumption of energy-enriched food (i.e. algae). This discovery suggests that boosted energy transfer may not only compensate for the energetic burden of ocean acidification but also enable calcifiers to build energetically costly shells that are robust to acidified conditions. We unlock a possible mechanism underlying the persistence of calcifiers in acidifying oceans. Text Ocean acidification PubMed Central (PMC) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 1906 20190757 |
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Increasing carbon emissions not only enrich oceans with CO(2) but also make them more acidic. This acidifying process has caused considerable concern because laboratory studies show that ocean acidification impairs calcification (or shell building) and survival of calcifiers by the end of this century. Whether this impairment in shell building also occurs in natural communities remains largely unexplored, but requires re-examination because of the recent counterintuitive finding that populations of calcifiers can be boosted by CO(2) enrichment. Using natural CO(2) vents, we found that ocean acidification resulted in the production of thicker, more crystalline and more mechanically resilient shells of a herbivorous gastropod, which was associated with the consumption of energy-enriched food (i.e. algae). This discovery suggests that boosted energy transfer may not only compensate for the energetic burden of ocean acidification but also enable calcifiers to build energetically costly shells that are robust to acidified conditions. We unlock a possible mechanism underlying the persistence of calcifiers in acidifying oceans. |
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How calorie-rich food could help marine calcifiers in a CO(2)-rich future |
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