Ocean acidification and warming reduce juvenile survival of the fluted giant clam, Tridacna squamosa

• Main Authors: Watson, S A, Southgate, Paul C, Miller, G M, Moorhead, J A, Knauer, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2012
• Subjects: FoR 06 (Biological Sciences); FoR 05 (Environmental Sciences); FoR 07 (Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences); climate change; carbon dioxide; high-CO2; temperature; ecology; Cardiidae; Tridacninae; mollusc; bivalve; Bivalvia; Lamarck; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.mapress.com/mr/content/v32/2012f/n3p180.htm

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing ocean acidification and ocean warming; however, the synergistic effects of these stressors on giant clams are completely unknown. Juveniles of the fluted giant clam, Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819, were exposed to present-day control seawater...