Impacts of Multiple Stressors on a Benthic Foraminiferal Community: A Long-Term Experiment Assessing Response to Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia and Warming
| Autor: | Johannes C. Wit, David J. Beaudoin, William G. Phalen, Joan M. Bernhard, Daniel C. McCorkle, Victoria R. Starczak |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Science benthic foraminifera Ocean Engineering ocean acidification Aquatic Science QH1-199.5 Oceanography 01 natural sciences Foraminifera Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology Global and Planetary Change Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Ocean chemistry Global warming benthic communities Hypoxia (environmental) deoxygenation General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution Ocean acidification biology.organism_classification climate change Benthic zone Environmental science propagule bank |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 8 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2296-7745 |
| Popis: | Ocean chemistry is changing as a result of human activities. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are increasing, causing an increase in oceanic pCO2 that drives a decrease in oceanic pH, a process called ocean acidification (OA). Higher CO2 concentrations are also linked to rising global temperatures that can result in more stratified surface waters, reducing the exchange between surface and deep waters; this stronger stratification, along with nutrient pollution, contributes to an expansion of oxygen-depleted zones (so called hypoxia or deoxygenation). Determining the response of marine organisms to environmental changes is important for assessments of future ecosystem functioning. While many studies have assessed the impact of individual or paired stressors, fewer studies have assessed the combined impact of pCO2, O2, and temperature. A long-term experiment (∼10 months) with different treatments of these three stressors was conducted to determine their sole or combined impact on the abundance and survival of a benthic foraminiferal community collected from a continental-shelf site. Foraminifera are well suited to such study because of their small size, relatively rapid growth, varied mineralogies and physiologies. Inoculation materials were collected from a ∼77-m deep site south of Woods Hole, MA. Very fine sediments ( |
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