Painted goby larvae under high-CO2 fail to recognize reef sounds

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Atmospheric CO2 levels have been increasing at an unprecedented rate due to anthropogenic activity. Consequently, ocean pCO2 is increasing and pH decreasing, affecting marine life, including fish. For many coastal marine fishes, selection of the adult habitat occurs at the end of the pelagic larval phase. Fish larvae use a range of sensory cues, including sound, for locating settlement habitat. This study tested the effect of elevated CO2 on the ability of settlement-stage temperate fish to use auditory cues from adult coastal reef habitats. Wild late larval stages of painted goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) were exposed to control pCO2 (532 µatm, pH 8.06) and high pCO2 (1503 µatm, pH 7.66) conditions, likely to occur in nearshore regions subjected to upwelling events by the end of the century, and tested in an auditory choice chamber for their preference or avoidance to nighttime reef recordings. Fish reared in control pCO2 conditions discriminated reef soundscapes and were attracted by reef recordings. This behaviour changed in fish reared in the high CO2 conditions, with settlement-stage larvae strongly avoiding reef recordings. This study provides evidence that ocean acidification might affect the auditory responses of larval stages of temperate reef fish species, with potentially significant impacts on their survival.

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) 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 by seacarb is 2017-05-08.

Supplement to: Castro, Joana M; Amorim, M Clara P; Oliveira, A P; Gonçalves, Emanuel J; Munday, Philip L; Simpson, Stephen D; Faria, Ana M (2017): Painted goby larvae under high-CO2 fail to recognize reef sounds. PLoS ONE, 12(1), e0170838

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875087
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170838
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.875087
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Creator Castro, Joana M; Amorim, M Clara P ORCID logo; Oliveira, A P ORCID logo; Gonçalves, Emanuel J ORCID logo; Munday, Philip L ORCID logo; Simpson, Stephen D ORCID logo; Faria, Ana M ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Yang, Yan
Publication Year 2017
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 5301 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-8.983 LON, 38.467 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z