Seawater carbonate chemistry and elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates

doi:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.933051

Seawater carbonate chemistry and elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates

Elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates are widely used in geobiology, environmental science, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. It is generally accepted that the elemental abundance of biogenic marine carbonates reflects a combination of the abundance of that ion in seawater, the physical properties of seawater, the mineralogy of the biomineral, and the pathways and mechanisms of biomineralization. Here we report measurements of a suite of nine elemental ratios (Li/Ca, B/Ca, Na/Ca, Mg/Ca, Zn/Ca, Sr/Ca, Cd/Ca, Ba/Ca, and U/Ca) in 18 species of benthic marine invertebrates spanning a range of biogenic carbonate polymorph mineralogies (low-Mg calcite, high-Mg calcite, aragonite, mixed mineralogy) and of phyla (including Mollusca, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Annelida, Cnidaria, Chlorophyta, and Rhodophyta) cultured at a single temperature (25°C) and a range of pCO2 treatments (ca. 409, 606, 903, and 2856 ppm). This dataset was used to explore various controls over elemental partitioning in biogenic marine carbonates, including species-level and biomineralization-pathway-level controls, the influence of internal pH regulation compared to external pH changes, and biocalcification responses to changes in seawater carbonate chemistry. The dataset also enables exploration of broad scale phylogenetic patterns of elemental partitioning across calcifying species, exhibiting high phylogenetic signals estimated from both uni- and multivariate analyses of the elemental ratio data (univariate: lambda = 0–0.889; multivariate: lambda = 0.895–0.99). Comparing partial R2 values returned from non-phylogenetic and phylogenetic regression analyses echo the importance of and show that phylogeny explains the elemental ratio data 1.4–59 times better than mineralogy in five out of nine of the elements analyzed. Therefore, the strong associations between biomineral elemental chemistry and species relatedness suggests mechanistic controls over element incorporation rooted in the evolution of biomineralization mechanisms.

BibTex:

@dataset{Ulrich_Robert_N_and_Guillermic_Maxence_and_Campbell_Julia_and_Hakim_Abbas_and_Han_Rachel_and_Singh_Shayleen_and_Stewart_Justin_D_and_Román-Palacios_Cristian_and_Carroll_Hannah_M_and_De_Corte_Ilian_and_Gilmore_Rosaleen_E_and_Doss_Whitney_and_Tripati_Aradhna_K_and_Ries_Justin_B_and_Eagle_Robert_A_2021,
    abstract = {Elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates are widely used in geobiology, environmental science, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. It is generally accepted that the elemental abundance of biogenic marine carbonates reflects a combination of the abundance of that ion in seawater, the physical properties of seawater, the mineralogy of the biomineral, and the pathways and mechanisms of biomineralization. Here we report measurements of a suite of nine elemental ratios (Li/Ca, B/Ca, Na/Ca, Mg/Ca, Zn/Ca, Sr/Ca, Cd/Ca, Ba/Ca, and U/Ca) in 18 species of benthic marine invertebrates spanning a range of biogenic carbonate polymorph mineralogies (low-Mg calcite, high-Mg calcite, aragonite, mixed mineralogy) and of phyla (including Mollusca, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Annelida, Cnidaria, Chlorophyta, and Rhodophyta) cultured at a single temperature (25°C) and a range of pCO2 treatments (ca. 409, 606, 903, and 2856 ppm). This dataset was used to explore various controls over elemental partitioning in biogenic marine carbonates, including species-level and biomineralization-pathway-level controls, the influence of internal pH regulation compared to external pH changes, and biocalcification responses to changes in seawater carbonate chemistry. The dataset also enables exploration of broad scale phylogenetic patterns of elemental partitioning across calcifying species, exhibiting high phylogenetic signals estimated from both uni- and multivariate analyses of the elemental ratio data (univariate: lambda = 0–0.889; multivariate: lambda = 0.895–0.99). Comparing partial R2 values returned from non-phylogenetic and phylogenetic regression analyses echo the importance of and show that phylogeny explains the elemental ratio data 1.4–59 times better than mineralogy in five out of nine of the elements analyzed. Therefore, the strong associations between biomineral elemental chemistry and species relatedness suggests mechanistic controls over element incorporation rooted in the evolution of biomineralization mechanisms.},
    author = {Ulrich, Robert N and Guillermic, Maxence and Campbell, Julia and Hakim, Abbas and Han, Rachel and Singh, Shayleen and Stewart, Justin D and Román-Palacios, Cristian and Carroll, Hannah M and De Corte, Ilian and Gilmore, Rosaleen E and Doss, Whitney and Tripati, Aradhna K and Ries, Justin B and Eagle, Robert A},
    doi = {10.1594/PANGAEA.933051},
    institution = {PANGAEA (Biological Classification)},
    keyword = {'1000 L or  1 m2', 'Abundance', 'Animalia', 'Annelida', 'Arbacia punctulata', 'Argopecten irradians', 'Arthropoda', 'Benthic animals', 'Benthos', 'Biomass', 'Callinectes sapidus', 'Chlorophyta', 'Cnidaria', 'Coast and continental shelf', 'Containers and aquaria 20', 'Crassostrea virginica', 'Crepidula fornicata', 'Echinodermata', 'Elemental composition', 'Eucidaris tribuloides', 'Halimeda incrassata', 'Homarus americanus', 'Hydroides crucigera', 'Laboratory experiment', 'Littorina littorea', 'Macroalgae', 'Mercenaria mercenaria', 'Mollusca', 'Mya arenaria', 'Mytilus edulis', 'Neogoniolithon spectabile', 'North Atlantic', 'Oculina arbuscula', 'Penaeus plebejus', 'Plantae', 'Rhodophyta', 'Single species', 'Strombus alatus', 'Temperate', 'Urosalpinx cinerea'},
    title = {Seawater carbonate chemistry and elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates},
    url = {https://service.tib.eu/ldmservice/vdataset/png-doi-10-1594-pangaea-933051},
    year = {2021}
}