Species-specific photosynthetic responses of symbiotic zoanthids to thermal stress and ocean acidification

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin R. Graham ◽  
Robert W. Sanders
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. eaba9958
Author(s):  
Maxence Guillermic ◽  
Louise P. Cameron ◽  
Ilian De Corte ◽  
Sambuddha Misra ◽  
Jelle Bijma ◽  
...  

The combination of thermal stress and ocean acidification (OA) can more negatively affect coral calcification than an individual stressors, but the mechanism behind this interaction is unknown. We used two independent methods (microelectrode and boron geochemistry) to measure calcifying fluid pH (pHcf) and carbonate chemistry of the corals Pocillopora damicornis and Stylophora pistillata grown under various temperature and pCO2 conditions. Although these approaches demonstrate that they record pHcf over different time scales, they reveal that both species can cope with OA under optimal temperatures (28°C) by elevating pHcf and aragonite saturation state (Ωcf) in support of calcification. At 31°C, neither species elevated these parameters as they did at 28°C and, likewise, could not maintain substantially positive calcification rates under any pH treatment. These results reveal a previously uncharacterized influence of temperature on coral pHcf regulation—the apparent mechanism behind the negative interaction between thermal stress and OA on coral calcification.


2018 ◽  
Vol 219 (3) ◽  
pp. 1005-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Collier ◽  
Lucas Langlois ◽  
Yan Ow ◽  
Charlotte Johansson ◽  
Manuela Giammusso ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 2084-2094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Jin ◽  
Kunshan Gao ◽  
Virginia E. Villafañe ◽  
Douglas A. Campbell ◽  
E. Walter Helbling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Müller ◽  
et al.

Detailed information on the applied geochemical and calibration methods, carbonate chemistry models, age model, sample preservation, and additional information about species-specific effect on δ<sup>11</sup>B fractionation in brachiopods.<br>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Rahlff ◽  
Sahar Khodami ◽  
Lisa Voskuhl ◽  
Matthew P. Humphreys ◽  
Christian Stolle ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTAnthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions drive climate change and pose one of the major challenges of our century. The effects of increased CO2 in the form of ocean acidification (OA) on the communities of marine planktonic eukaryotes in tropical regions such as the Timor Sea are barely understood. Here, we show the effects of high CO2 (pCO2=1823±161 μatm, pHT=7.46±0.05) versus in situ CO2 (pCO2=504±42 μatm, pHT=7.95±0.04) seawater on the community composition of marine planktonic eukaryotes immediately and after 48 hours of treatment exposure in a shipboard microcosm experiment. Illumina sequencing of the V9 hypervariable region of 18S rRNA (gene) was used to study the eukaryotic community composition. Down-regulation of extracellular carbonic anhydrase occurred faster in the high CO2 treatment. Increased CO2 significantly suppressed the relative abundances of different eukaryotic operational taxonomic units (OTUs), including important primary producers. These effects were consistent between abundant (DNA-based) and active (cDNA-based) taxa after 48 hours, e.g., for the diatoms Trieres chinensis and Stephanopyxis turris. Effects were also very species-specific among different diatoms. Planktonic eukaryotes showed adaptation to the CO2 treatment over time, but many OTUs were adversely affected by decreasing pH. OA effects might fundamentally impact the base of marine biodiversity, suggesting profound outcomes for food web functioning in the future ocean.


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