Effects of high temperature and CO2 on intracellular DMSP in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

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Significant warming and acidification of the oceans is projected to occur by the end of the century. CO2 vents, areas of upwelling and downwelling, and potential leaks from carbon capture and storage facilities may also cause localised environmental changes, enhancing or depressing the effect of global climate change. Cold-water coral ecosystems are threatened by future changes in carbonate chemistry, yet our knowledge of the response of these corals to high temperature and high CO2 conditions is limited. Dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP), and its breakdown product dimethylsulphide (DMS), are putative antioxidants that may be accumulated by invertebrates via their food or symbionts, although recent research suggests that some invertebrates may also be able to synthesise DMSP. This study provides the first information on the impact of high temperature (12 °C) and high CO2 (817 ppm) on intracellular DMSP in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa from the Mingulay Reef Complex, Scotland (56°49' N, 07°23' W), where in situ environmental conditions are meditated by tidally induced downwellings. An increase in intracellular DMSP under high CO2 conditions was observed, whilst water column particulate DMS + DMSP was reduced. In both high temperature treatments, intracellular DMSP was similar to the control treatment, whilst dissolved DMSP + DMS was not significantly different between any of the treatments. These results suggest that L. pertusa accumulates DMSP from the surrounding water column; uptake may be up-regulated under high CO2 conditions, but mediated by high temperature. These results provide new insight into the biotic control of deep-sea biogeochemistry and may impact our understanding of the global sulphur cycle, and the survival of cold-water corals under projected global change.

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne et al, 2014) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation is 2014-09-01.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.835430
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2435-5
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5285/f1a75a9f-95c9-57c1-e044-000b5de50f38
Related Identifier https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documents/nodb/226210/
Related Identifier https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.835430
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Creator Burdett, H L ORCID logo; Carruthers, M; Donohue, P J C; Wicks, L C ORCID logo; Hennige, Sebastian J (ORCID: 0000-0002-3059-604X); Roberts, J Murray ORCID logo; Kamenos, N A ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Yang, Yan
Publication Year 2014
Funding Reference Natural Environment Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 Crossref Funder ID NE/H017305/1 https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FH017305%2F1 Impacts of ocean acidification on key benthic ecosystems, communities, habitats, species and life cycles
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1114 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-7.383 LON, 56.817 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-30T00:00:00Z