Mixed effects of elevated pCO2 on fertilisation, larval and juvenile development and adult responses in the mobile subtidal scallop Mimachlamys asperrima (Lamarck, 1819)

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Scanes, Elliot (S30655), Parker, Laura M. (R14175), O'Connor, Wayne A., Ross, Pauline M. (R8495)
• Other Authors: School of Science and Health (Host institution)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: U.S., PLoS One 2014
• Subjects: XXXXXX - Unknown; Lamarck; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/548092; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093649

Ocean acidification is predicted to have severe consequences for calcifying marine organisms especially molluscs. Recent studies, however, have found that molluscs in marine environments with naturally elevated or fluctuating CO 2 or with an active, high metabolic rate lifestyle may have a capacity...