Seawater carbonate chemistry and early life development of pelagic spawning marine fish

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The present study investigated the effect of elevated pCO2 on the development of early stages of the pelagic spawning marine fish Solea senegalensis, Diplodus sargus and Argyrosomus regius. Eggs and larvae were reared under control (pH 8.0, ,570 µatm) and two elevated pCO2 conditions (pH 7.8, ,1100 µatm; pH 7.6, ,1900 µatm) until mouth opening (3 days post-hatching). Egg size did not change with exposure to elevated pCO2, but hatching rate was significantly reduced under high pCO2 for all three species. Survival rate was not affected by exposure to increased pCO2, but growth rate was differently affected across species, with A. regius growing faster in the mid-level pCO2 treatment compared with control conditions. S. senegalensis and A. regius hatched with smaller yolk sacs under increased pCO2 but endogenous reserves of D. sargus were not affected. Otoliths were consistently larger under elevated pCO2 conditions for all the three species. Differences among egg batches and a significant interaction between batch and pCO2 suggest that other factors, such as egg quality, can influence the response to increased pCO2. Overall, the results support the occurrence of a species-specific response to pCO2, but highlight the need for cautious analysis of potential sensitivity of species from unreplicated observations.

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 2018-07-02.

Supplement to: Faria, Ana M; Filipe, Soraia; Lopes, A F; Oliveira, A P; Gonçalves, Emanuel J; Ribeiro, Laura (2017): Effects of high pCO2 on early life development of pelagic spawning marine fish. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68(11), 2106

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891632
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1071/MF16385
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.891632
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Creator Faria, Ana M ORCID logo; Filipe, Soraia; Lopes, A F ORCID logo; Oliveira, A P ORCID logo; Gonçalves, Emanuel J ORCID logo; Ribeiro, Laura 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 447 data points
Discipline Earth System Research