Publication Date:
2024-03-15
Description:
Ocean warming and acidification affect species populations, but how interactions within communities are affected and how this translates into ecosystem functioning and resilience remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that experimental ocean warming and acidification significantly alters the interaction network among porewater nutrients, primary producers, herbivores and burrowing invertebrates in a seafloor sediment community, and is linked to behavioural plasticity in the clam Scrobicularia plana. Warming and acidification induced a shift in the clam's feeding mode from predominantly suspension feeding under ambient conditions to deposit feeding with cascading effects on nutrient supply to primary producers. Surface-dwelling invertebrates were more tolerant to warming and acidification in the presence of S. plana, most probably due to the stimulatory effect of the clam on their microalgal food resources. This study demonstrates that predictions of population resilience to climate change require consideration of non-lethal effects such as behavioural changes of key species.
Keywords:
Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard error; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard error; Biomass, standard error; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (〈20 L); Brackish waters; Calcite saturation state; Calcite saturation state, standard error; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard error; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Community composition and diversity; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Entire community; EXP; Experiment; Frequency of events; Frequency of events, standard error; Freshness; Freshness, standard error; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Individuals; Individuals, standard error; Laboratory experiment; Microalgal biomass; Mollusca; Nitrite; Nitrite, standard error; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air), standard error; pH; pH, standard error; Phosphate; Phosphate, standard error; Registration number of species; Salinity; Salinity, standard error; Schelde_estuary; Scrobicularia plana; Silicate; Silicate, standard error; Single species; Soft-bottom community; Species; Temperate; Temperature; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Time, standard error; Time in minutes; Treatment; Type; Uniform resource locator/link to reference
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 734 data points
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