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ANTARCTIC SCIENCE
卷 30, 期 3, 页码 160-169出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102017000566
关键词
acidification; calcification; calcium carbonate; Echinodermata
资金
- NSF [ANT-1043745, ANT-1041022]
- Endowed Professorship in Polar and Marine Biology
Echinoderms are vulnerable to ocean acidification because of their high magnesium calcite skeletons. Here, skeletal Mg/Ca ratios were examined within and between individuals of 20 Antarctic echinoderms representative of the asteroids, ophiuroids and echinoids. The highest mean Mg/Ca ratios occurred in the discs and arms (0.111 and 0.110, respectively) of brittle-stars and the lowest in the spines (0.010) of cidaroid sea urchins. Many taxa (11 of 14 species) from the collection sites showed no intraspecific differences in Mg/Ca ratios between given skeletal components. Exceptions were the spines of two regular sea urchins and the skeletal ossicles of the combined arms and disc of a brittle-star. The relationship between skeletal magnesium content and latitude was further evaluated and an inverse correlation was found between Antarctic echinoderm taxa skeletal magnesium content and latitude across 62 degrees to 76 degrees, indicating that the relationship occurs over relatively narrow latitudes. Upon examination of an even narrower range (70 76 degrees latitude), a region where the mineralogy of echinoderm skeletons has not been investigated, the predicted inverse relationship between Mg/Ca ratio and latitude was still observed in sea-stars, but not in brittle-stars or sea urchins.
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