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Data from: Persistent natural acidification drives major distribution shifts in marine benthic ecosystems
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282841
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
- Linares, Cristina
- Vidal, Montserrat
- Canals, Miquel
- Kersting, D. K.
- Amblas, David
- Aspillaga, Eneko
- Cebrian, Emma
- Delgado Huertas, Antonio
- Díaz Viñolas, David
- Garrabou, Joaquim
- Hereu, Bernat
- Navarro, Laura
- Teixidó, Nuria
- Ballesteros, Enric
Linares et al_Data and Supplementary Material
Data and supplementary material, Ocean acidification is one of the main stressors affecting marine ecosystems. Rare CO2 vents offer a unique opportunity to investigate the response of benthic ecosystems to acidification. However, the benthic habitats that have been investigated so far are mainly very shallow water (≤5 m depth) and, therefore, to habitats that are poorly representative of the broad range of habitats that occur on the continental shelf. Here, we show that a decrease from pH 8.1 to 7.9 observed in a CO2 vent system at 40 m depth leads to a dramatic shift in highly diverse and structurally complex habitats. Forests of the kelp Laminaria rodriguezii usually found at larger depths (>65 m) replace the dominant habitats (i.e. coralligenous outcrops and rhodolith beds), which are mainly characterized by calcifying organisms. Only the aragonite-calcifying algae are able to survive in acidified waters, while high-magnesium calcite organisms lack almost completely. Beyond significant changes at species level also reported in most of previous studies, our results demonstrate that moderate ocean acidification and pH levels expected to occur at the end of this century will entail outstanding changes in the distribution and dominance of key benthic ecosystems at regional scales, with far-reaching ecological and socio-economic implications., Peer reviewed
DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282841, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.0f7s7
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282841
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282841, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.0f7s7
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282841
Ver en: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282841, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.0f7s7
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Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282841
Dataset. 2015
DATA FROM: PERSISTENT NATURAL ACIDIFICATION DRIVES MAJOR DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS IN MARINE BENTHIC ECOSYSTEMS
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
- Linares, Cristina
- Vidal, Montserrat
- Canals, Miquel
- Kersting, D. K.
- Amblas, David
- Aspillaga, Eneko
- Cebrian, Emma
- Delgado Huertas, Antonio
- Díaz Viñolas, David
- Garrabou, Joaquim
- Hereu, Bernat
- Navarro, Laura
- Teixidó, Nuria
- Ballesteros, Enric
Linares et al_Data and Supplementary Material
Data and supplementary material, Ocean acidification is one of the main stressors affecting marine ecosystems. Rare CO2 vents offer a unique opportunity to investigate the response of benthic ecosystems to acidification. However, the benthic habitats that have been investigated so far are mainly very shallow water (≤5 m depth) and, therefore, to habitats that are poorly representative of the broad range of habitats that occur on the continental shelf. Here, we show that a decrease from pH 8.1 to 7.9 observed in a CO2 vent system at 40 m depth leads to a dramatic shift in highly diverse and structurally complex habitats. Forests of the kelp Laminaria rodriguezii usually found at larger depths (>65 m) replace the dominant habitats (i.e. coralligenous outcrops and rhodolith beds), which are mainly characterized by calcifying organisms. Only the aragonite-calcifying algae are able to survive in acidified waters, while high-magnesium calcite organisms lack almost completely. Beyond significant changes at species level also reported in most of previous studies, our results demonstrate that moderate ocean acidification and pH levels expected to occur at the end of this century will entail outstanding changes in the distribution and dominance of key benthic ecosystems at regional scales, with far-reaching ecological and socio-economic implications., Peer reviewed
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