Selective mortality associated with variation in CO2 tolerance in a marine fish

Predicted future CO2 levels can affect reproduction, growth, and behaviour of many marine organisms. However, the capacity of species to adapt to predicted changes in ocean chemistry is largely unknown. We used a unique field-based experiment to test for differential survival associated with variation in CO2 tolerance in a wild population of coral-reef fishes. Juvenile damselfish exhibited variation in their response to elevated (700 µatm) CO2 when tested in the laboratory and this influenced their behaviour and risk of mortality in the wild. Individuals that were sensitive to elevated CO2 were more active and move further from shelter in natural coral reef habitat and, as a result, mortality from predation was significantly higher compared with individuals from the same treatment that were tolerant of elevated CO2. If individual variation in CO2 tolerance is heritable, this selection of phenotypes tolerant to elevated CO2 could potentially help mitigate the effects of ocean acidification.

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Munday, Philip L, McCormick, Mark I, Meekan, Mark, Dixson, Danielle L, Watson, Sue-Ann, Chivers, Douglas P, Ferrari, Maud C O (2012). Dataset: Selective mortality associated with variation in CO2 tolerance in a marine fish. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.833429

DOI retrieved: 2012

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License CC-BY-3.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.833429
Author Munday, Philip L
Given Name Philip L
Family Name Munday
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McCormick, Mark I
Meekan, Mark
Dixson, Danielle L
Watson, Sue-Ann
Chivers, Douglas P
Ferrari, Maud C O
Source Creation 2012
Publication Year 2012
Resource Type text/tab-separated-values - filename: Munday_2012
Subject Areas
Name: BiologicalClassification

Name: Chemistry

Name: Ecology

Related Identifiers
Title: Selective mortality associated with variation in CO2 tolerance in a marine fish
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2478/oac-2012-0001
Type: DOI
Relation: IsSupplementTo
Year: 2012
Source: Ocean Acidification
Authors: Munday Philip L , McCormick Mark I , Meekan Mark , Dixson Danielle L , Watson Sue-Ann , Chivers Douglas P , Ferrari Maud C O .

Title: seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.0
Identifier: https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2014
Authors: Lavigne Héloïse , Epitalon Jean-Marie , Gattuso Jean-Pierre .