Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean Pteropods
Laboratory experiments suggest that decreased carbonate saturation will lower calcification rates of marine calcifiers, particularly aragonite producers such as shelled pteropods.Observations of impacts of decreased carbonate saturation on these at risk taxa in nature are, as yet, limited. The South...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:70806 2023-05-15T13:34:56+02:00 Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean Pteropods Roberts, D Howard, W Moy, AD Roberts, JL Trull, T Bray, SG Hopcroft, RR 2010 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/70806 en eng Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Roberts, D and Howard, W and Moy, AD and Roberts, JL and Trull, T and Bray, SG and Hopcroft, RR, Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean Pteropods, 4th SCAR Open Science Conference - Antarctica: Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future. Submitted Abstracts, 3-6 August 2010, Buenos Aires, pp. Abstract 653. ISBN 978 0 948277 24 5 (2010) [Conference Extract] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/70806 Environmental Sciences Ecological Applications Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Conference Extract NonPeerReviewed 2010 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T21:38:26Z Laboratory experiments suggest that decreased carbonate saturation will lower calcification rates of marine calcifiers, particularly aragonite producers such as shelled pteropods.Observations of impacts of decreased carbonate saturation on these at risk taxa in nature are, as yet, limited. The Southern Ocean presents a unique opportunity in which to observe in situ responses of pteropods to changes in ocean carbonate chemistry as these waters contain a disproportionate amount of the oceanic inventory of anthropogenic CO2 and will experience aragonite undersaturation earlier than other areas of the global ocean. Through a sustained sediment trap monitoring program in the deep (2000 m) subantarctic (47S, 142E) Southern Ocean we infer a slight decline in mean shell weight, and contribution to total pteropod flux, of the common shelled pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica forma antarctica from 1997-2006.Attribution of this trend to acidification is unclear. However, these small but discernible interannual decreases may represent an emerging response to changing carbonate saturation in the Southern Ocean, which does have a clear, if slow, decadal decline. As pteropods are important biogeochemically and nutritionally in the Southern Ocean ecosystem there is a particular urgency in determining the impact of ocean acidification on these calcifiers. And as we are unable to access pre-industrial baselines of calcification for pteropods in the Southern Ocean our results point to the importance of continued in situ observations in this at risk marine ecosystem as a means of detecting impacts of ocean acidification on the most vulnerable calcifiers as early as possible. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica Limacina helicina Ocean acidification Southern Ocean eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Southern Ocean |
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Laboratory experiments suggest that decreased carbonate saturation will lower calcification rates of marine calcifiers, particularly aragonite producers such as shelled pteropods.Observations of impacts of decreased carbonate saturation on these at risk taxa in nature are, as yet, limited. The Southern Ocean presents a unique opportunity in which to observe in situ responses of pteropods to changes in ocean carbonate chemistry as these waters contain a disproportionate amount of the oceanic inventory of anthropogenic CO2 and will experience aragonite undersaturation earlier than other areas of the global ocean. Through a sustained sediment trap monitoring program in the deep (2000 m) subantarctic (47S, 142E) Southern Ocean we infer a slight decline in mean shell weight, and contribution to total pteropod flux, of the common shelled pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica forma antarctica from 1997-2006.Attribution of this trend to acidification is unclear. However, these small but discernible interannual decreases may represent an emerging response to changing carbonate saturation in the Southern Ocean, which does have a clear, if slow, decadal decline. As pteropods are important biogeochemically and nutritionally in the Southern Ocean ecosystem there is a particular urgency in determining the impact of ocean acidification on these calcifiers. And as we are unable to access pre-industrial baselines of calcification for pteropods in the Southern Ocean our results point to the importance of continued in situ observations in this at risk marine ecosystem as a means of detecting impacts of ocean acidification on the most vulnerable calcifiers as early as possible. |
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Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean Pteropods |
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Roberts, D and Howard, W and Moy, AD and Roberts, JL and Trull, T and Bray, SG and Hopcroft, RR, Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean Pteropods, 4th SCAR Open Science Conference - Antarctica: Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future. Submitted Abstracts, 3-6 August 2010, Buenos Aires, pp. Abstract 653. ISBN 978 0 948277 24 5 (2010) [Conference Extract] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/70806 |
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