Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters

The combustion of fossil fuels is pushing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) to unprecedented levels. This rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing global changes, with noticeable increases in temperature, sea level rise and changes to marine carbon chemistry (i.e., Ocean Acidifi...

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Main Authors: Ben-Hamadou, Radhouane, Aboshanab, Rawan, Sherif, Ahmed, Al-Mandili, Monzer, Omer, Ghadeer, Shabbir, Fahad, Kazmi, Sayed, Range, Pedro, Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim, Obbard, Jeffrey
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CO2
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https://doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.qulss.29
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spelling ftqataruniv:oai:qspace.qu.edu.qa:10576/5515 2024-09-15T18:28:03+00:00 Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters Ben-Hamadou, Radhouane Aboshanab, Rawan Sherif, Ahmed Al-Mandili, Monzer Omer, Ghadeer Shabbir, Fahad Kazmi, Sayed Range, Pedro Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim Obbard, Jeffrey application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10576/5515 https://doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.qulss.29 en_ar eng Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.qulss.29 Ben-Hamadou R, Aboshanab R, Sherif A, Al-Mandili M, Omer G, Shabbir F, Kazmi S, Range P, Al-Maslamani I, Obbard J. "Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters." QScience Proceedings: Vol. 2016, QULSS 2016: Biodiversity, Sustainability and Climate Change, with Perspectives from Qatar, 12. 2226-9649 http://hdl.handle.net/10576/5515 4 2016 Qatar zooplankton acidification CO2 climate change sustainability Biodiversity Conference Paper ftqataruniv https://doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.qulss.29 2024-07-30T14:28:47Z The combustion of fossil fuels is pushing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) to unprecedented levels. This rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing global changes, with noticeable increases in temperature, sea level rise and changes to marine carbon chemistry (i.e., Ocean Acidification - OA). The today average pH of ocean surface waters has already declined by 0.1 units from pre-industrial levels. According to the IPCC representative concentration pathways (RCPs), further declines in pH are predicted until the end of the century, varying between 0.14 units and 0.43 units. OA is irreversible on short time frames and previous studies have shown the potential impacts of ocean acidification on the physiology, reproduction, immunology and behavior of marine organisms, with effects already documented in multiple species and several regions of the world, although not in the Arabian Gulf. Nevertheless, the strong environmental variability of the Arabian Gulf presents good opportunities to study the potential impacts of future global change on marine ecosystems and to investigate the underlying mechanisms governing their resistance and adaptation to future environmental extremes. In this research we are targeting the response of zooplanktonic assemblages to OA, since these are commonly used as bioindicators of environmental and climate driven impact on marine ecosystems. The approach is mainly experimental, using controlled CO2 perturbation experiments, done aboard the Qatar University research vessel “Janan”. We are specifically investigating the response of zooplankton communities to relevant scenarios of seawater acidification by CO2, in terms of assemblage composition and structure; respiration rates; and egg production rates. The first round of experiments was conducted during a 3 day cruise offshore from Doha (June 3–5, 2016); complemented with a second cruise and round of experiments (November 17–19, 2016). Results provide insightful information about zooplankton communities’ responses to high ... Conference Object Ocean acidification Qatar University: QU Institutional Repository QScience Proceedings 2016 4 29
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Aboshanab, Rawan
Sherif, Ahmed
Al-Mandili, Monzer
Omer, Ghadeer
Shabbir, Fahad
Kazmi, Sayed
Range, Pedro
Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim
Obbard, Jeffrey
Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
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description The combustion of fossil fuels is pushing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) to unprecedented levels. This rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing global changes, with noticeable increases in temperature, sea level rise and changes to marine carbon chemistry (i.e., Ocean Acidification - OA). The today average pH of ocean surface waters has already declined by 0.1 units from pre-industrial levels. According to the IPCC representative concentration pathways (RCPs), further declines in pH are predicted until the end of the century, varying between 0.14 units and 0.43 units. OA is irreversible on short time frames and previous studies have shown the potential impacts of ocean acidification on the physiology, reproduction, immunology and behavior of marine organisms, with effects already documented in multiple species and several regions of the world, although not in the Arabian Gulf. Nevertheless, the strong environmental variability of the Arabian Gulf presents good opportunities to study the potential impacts of future global change on marine ecosystems and to investigate the underlying mechanisms governing their resistance and adaptation to future environmental extremes. In this research we are targeting the response of zooplanktonic assemblages to OA, since these are commonly used as bioindicators of environmental and climate driven impact on marine ecosystems. The approach is mainly experimental, using controlled CO2 perturbation experiments, done aboard the Qatar University research vessel “Janan”. We are specifically investigating the response of zooplankton communities to relevant scenarios of seawater acidification by CO2, in terms of assemblage composition and structure; respiration rates; and egg production rates. The first round of experiments was conducted during a 3 day cruise offshore from Doha (June 3–5, 2016); complemented with a second cruise and round of experiments (November 17–19, 2016). Results provide insightful information about zooplankton communities’ responses to high ...
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author Ben-Hamadou, Radhouane
Aboshanab, Rawan
Sherif, Ahmed
Al-Mandili, Monzer
Omer, Ghadeer
Shabbir, Fahad
Kazmi, Sayed
Range, Pedro
Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim
Obbard, Jeffrey
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Aboshanab, Rawan
Sherif, Ahmed
Al-Mandili, Monzer
Omer, Ghadeer
Shabbir, Fahad
Kazmi, Sayed
Range, Pedro
Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim
Obbard, Jeffrey
author_sort Ben-Hamadou, Radhouane
title Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
title_short Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
title_full Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
title_fullStr Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
title_full_unstemmed Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
title_sort uncovering responses of zooplankton community to co2 acidification in qatar coastal waters
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