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GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 18, 期 10, 页码 3026-3038出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02755.x
关键词
Calcium carbonate; calcification; ocean acidification; temperature; morphology; predation; solubility; mollusc; brachiopod; echinoid
资金
- NERC [NER/S/A/2005/13476]
- British Antarctic Survey
- Antarctic Funding Initiative Collaborative Gearing Scheme grant
- NERC National Centre for Scientific Diving, Oban
- Natural Environment Research Council [dml011000, bas0100025] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [bas0100025, dml011000] Funding Source: UKRI
There is great concern over the future effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms, especially for skeletal calcification, yet little is known of natural variation in skeleton size and composition across the globe, and this is a prerequisite for identifying factors currently controlling skeleton mass and thickness. Here, taxonomically controlled latitudinal variations in shell morphology and composition were investigated in bivalve and gastropod molluscs, brachiopods, and echinoids. Total inorganic content, a proxy for skeletal CaCO3, decreased with latitude, decreasing seawater temperature, and decreasing seawater carbonate saturation state (for CaCO3 as calcite (Ocal)) in all taxa. Shell mass decreased with latitude in molluscs and shell inorganic content decreased with latitude in buccinid gastropods. Shell thickness decreased with latitude in buccinid gastropods (excepting the Australian temperate buccinid) and echinoids, but not brachiopods and laternulid clams. In the latter, the polar species had the thickest shell. There was no latitudinal trend in shell thickness within brachiopods. The variation in trends in shell thickness by taxon suggests that in some circumstances ecological factors may override latitudinal trends. Latitudinal gradients may produce effects similar to those of future CO2-driven ocean acidification on CaCO3 saturation state. Responses to latitudinal trends in temperature and saturation state may therefore be useful in informing predictions of organism responses to ocean acidification over long-term adaptive timescales.
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