Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification
Abstract: Ocean acidification and global climate change are predicted to negatively impact marine calcifiers, with species inhabiting the intertidal zone being especially vulnerable. Current predictions of organism responses to projected changes are largely based on relatively short to medium term e...
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ftunivantwerpen:c:irua:189661 2023-07-16T04:00:15+02:00 Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification Mayk, Dennis Peck, Lloyd S. Backeljau, Thierry Harper, Elizabeth M. 2022 https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1896610151162165141 https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docstore/d:irua:13571 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/S43247-022-00486-7 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isi/000822490700001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 2662-4435 Communications Earth & Environment Physics Chemistry Biology info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2022 ftunivantwerpen https://doi.org/10.1038/S43247-022-00486-7 2023-06-26T22:36:09Z Abstract: Ocean acidification and global climate change are predicted to negatively impact marine calcifiers, with species inhabiting the intertidal zone being especially vulnerable. Current predictions of organism responses to projected changes are largely based on relatively short to medium term experiments over periods of a few days to a few years. Here we look at responses over a longer time span and present a 130-year shell shape and shell thickness record from archival museum collections of the marine intertidal predatory gastropod Nucella lapillus. We used multivariate ecological models to identify significant morphological trends through time and along environmental gradients and show that, contrary to global predictions, local N. lapillus populations built continuously thicker shells while maintaining a consistent shell shape throughout the last century. Marine gastropod shells have thickened over the past 130 years on the southern North Sea coast as local environmental conditions counteracted global ocean acidification, suggest analyses of a 130-year record of dog whelk morphology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Dog whelk Nucella lapillus IRUA - Institutional Repository van de Universiteit Antwerpen Communications Earth & Environment 3 1 |
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Abstract: Ocean acidification and global climate change are predicted to negatively impact marine calcifiers, with species inhabiting the intertidal zone being especially vulnerable. Current predictions of organism responses to projected changes are largely based on relatively short to medium term experiments over periods of a few days to a few years. Here we look at responses over a longer time span and present a 130-year shell shape and shell thickness record from archival museum collections of the marine intertidal predatory gastropod Nucella lapillus. We used multivariate ecological models to identify significant morphological trends through time and along environmental gradients and show that, contrary to global predictions, local N. lapillus populations built continuously thicker shells while maintaining a consistent shell shape throughout the last century. Marine gastropod shells have thickened over the past 130 years on the southern North Sea coast as local environmental conditions counteracted global ocean acidification, suggest analyses of a 130-year record of dog whelk morphology. |
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Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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Shell thickness of **Nucella lapillus** in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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shell thickness of **nucella lapillus** in the north sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification |
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Ocean acidification Dog whelk Nucella lapillus |
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Ocean acidification Dog whelk Nucella lapillus |
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