The role of temperature in determining species' vulnerability to ocean acidification: a case study using Mytilus galloprovincialis.

ABSTRACT: Ocean acidification (OA) is occurring across a backdrop of concurrent environmental changes that may in turn influence species' responses to OA. Temperature affects many fundamental biological processes and governs key reactions in the seawater carbonate system. It therefore has the potential to offset or exacerbate the effects of OA. While initial studies have examined the combined impacts of warming and OA for a narrow range of climate change scenarios, our mechanistic understanding of the interactive effects of temperature and OA remains limited. Here, we use the blue mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, as a model species to test how OA affects the growth of a calcifying invertebrate across a wide range of temperatures encompassing their thermal optimum. Mussels were exposed in the labor

SUBMITTER: Kroeker KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4077567 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature