Seawater carbonate chemistry and pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica shell dissolution during experiments, 2012

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Anthropogenic ocean acidification is likely to have negative effects on marine calcifying organisms, such as shelled pteropods, by promoting dissolution of aragonite shells. Study of shell dissolution requires an accurate and sensitive method for assessing shell damage. Shell dissolution was induced through incubations in CO2 enriched seawater for between 4 and 14 days. We describe a procedure that allows the level of dissolution to be assessed and classified into three main types: Type I with partial dissolution of the prismatic layer; Type II with exposure of underlying crossed-lamellar layer, and Type III, where crossed-lamellar layer shows signs of dissolution. Levels of dissolution showed a good correspondence to the incubation conditions, with the most severe damage found in specimens held for 14 d in undersaturated condition (Ohm ~ 0.8). This methodology enables the response of small pelagic calcifiers to acidified conditions to be detected at an early stage, thus making pteropods a valuable bioindicator of future ocean acidification.

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011) 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).

Supplement to: Bednaršek, Nina; Tarling, Geraint A; Bakker, Dorothee C E; Fielding, Sophie; Cohen, Anne L; Kuzirian, Alan; McCorkle, Daniel C; Lézé, Bertrand; Montagna, Roberto (2012): Description and quantification of pteropod shell dissolution: A sensitive bioindicator of ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, 18(7), 2378-2388

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.779926
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02668.x
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.779926
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Creator Bednaršek, Nina; Tarling, Geraint A; Bakker, Dorothee C E ORCID logo; Fielding, Sophie; Cohen, Anne L; Kuzirian, Alan; McCorkle, Daniel C; Lézé, Bertrand; Montagna, Roberto
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Nisumaa, Anne-Marin
Publication Year 2012
Funding Reference Seventh Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011102 Crossref Funder ID 211384 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/211384 European Project on Ocean Acidification; Sixth Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011103 Crossref Funder ID 511106 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/511106 European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis
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 188 data points
Discipline Earth System Research