Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH
<jats:p>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-sp...
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ftunivplympearl:oai:pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:10026.1/14304 2024-06-09T07:48:46+00:00 Quantifying susceptibility of marine invertebrate biocomposites to dissolution in reduced pH Chadwick, M Harper, EM Lemasson, A Spicer, JI Peck, LS 2019-06-05 190252-190252 Electronic-eCollection application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14304 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190252 en eng Royal Society, The England ISSN:2054-5703 E-ISSN:2054-5703 2054-5703 ARTN 190252 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14304 doi:10.1098/rsos.190252 2019-12-18 Not known ocean acidification microstructure bivalves dissolution crustaceans journal-article Article 2019 ftunivplympearl https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190252 2024-05-14T23:46:24Z <jats:p>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.</jats:p> Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification PEARL (Plymouth Electronic Archiv & ResearchLibrary, Plymouth University) Royal Society Open Science 6 6 190252 |
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<jats:p>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.</jats:p> |
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Chadwick, M Harper, EM Lemasson, A Spicer, JI Peck, LS |
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Chadwick, M Harper, EM Lemasson, A Spicer, JI Peck, LS |
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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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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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