Seawater carbonate chemistry and biological parameters during experiments with white sea bass Atractoscion nobilis, 2009

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A large fraction of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by human activity enters the sea, causing ocean acidification. We show that otoliths (aragonite ear bones) of young fish grown under high CO2 (low pH) conditions are larger than normal, contrary to expectation. We hypothesize that CO2 moves freely through the epithelium around the otoliths in young fish, accelerating otolith growth while the local pH is controlled. This is the converse of the effect commonly reported for structural biominerals.

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: Checkley, David M; Dickson, Andrew G; Takahashi, Motomitsu; Radich, J Adam; Eisenkolb, Nadine; Asch, Rebecca (2009): Elevated CO2 enhances otolith growth in young fish. Science, 324(5935), 1683

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728723
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1169806
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.728723
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Creator Checkley, David M; Dickson, Andrew G ORCID logo; Takahashi, Motomitsu; Radich, J Adam; Eisenkolb, Nadine; Asch, Rebecca
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Nisumaa, Anne-Marin
Publication Year 2009
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/
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Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4392 data points
Discipline Earth System Research