Pelagic calcifiers face increased mortality and habitat loss with warming and ocean acidification.

ABSTRACT: Global change is impacting the oceans in an unprecedented way, and multiple lines of evidence suggest that species distributions are changing in space and time. There is increasing evidence that multiple environmental stressors act together to constrain species habitat more than expected from warming alone. Here, we conducted a comprehensive study of how temperature and aragonite saturation state act together to limit Limacina helicina, globally distributed pteropods that are ecologically important pelagic calcifiers and an indicator species for ocean change. We co-validated three different approaches to evaluate the impact of ocean warming and acidification (OWA) on the survival and distribution of this species in the California Current Ecosystem. First, we used colocated physical, chemic

SUBMITTER: Bednarsek N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9786838 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature