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Ocean acidification narrows the acute thermal and salinity tolerance of the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Coastal and estuarine environments are characterised by acute changes in temperature and salinity. Organisms living within these environments are adapted to withstand such...
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Desalination technology waste streams: effect of pH and salinity on metabolism of marine microbial assemblages
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Effluents from desalination technologies may influence natural bacterial assemblages due to changes in salinity, pH, dissolved organic carbon concentration (DOC), DOC quality...
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Exposure to elevated carbon dioxide does not impair short-term swimming behaviour or shelter-seeking in a predatory coral-reef fish
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Adult bluespotted rockcod Cephalopholis cyanostigma, a coral‐reef grouper, were acclimated to either ambient (mean ± S.D. 41.12 ± 2.13 Pa;) or high pCO2 (95.75 ± 11.75 Pa)...
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Effects of seawater acidification on cell cycle control mechanisms in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus embryos
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Previous studies have shown fertilization and development of marine species can be significantly inhibited when the pH of sea water is artificially lowered. Little mechanistic...
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Physiological responses and scope for growth upon medium-term exposure to the combined effects of ocean acidification and temperature in a subtidal scavenger Nassarius conoidalis
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Physiological responses (ingestion rate, absorption rate and efficiency, respiration, rate, excretion rate) and scope for growth of a subtidal scavenging gastropod Nassarius...
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Effects of ocean warming and acidification, combined with eutrophication, on chemical composition and functional properties of Ulva rigida
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Ulva is increasingly viewed as a food source in the world. Here, Ulva rigida was cultured at two levels of temperature (14, 18°C), pH (7.95, 7.55, corresponding to low and high...
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Ocean acidification affects coral growth by reducing skeletal density
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Ocean acidification (OA) is considered an important threat to coral reef ecosystems, because it reduces the availability of carbonate ions that reef-building corals need to...
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Size matters: plasticity in metabolic scaling shows body-size may modulate responses to climate change
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Variability in metabolic scaling in animals, the relationship between metabolic rate (R) and body mass (M), has been a source of debate and controversy for decades. R is...
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Strategies of dissolved inorganic carbon use in macroalgae across a gradient of terrestrial influence: implications for the Great Barrier Reef in the context of ocean acidification
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Macroalgae are generally used as indicators of coral reef status; thus, understanding the drivers and mechanisms leading to increased macroalgal abundance are of critical...
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Aggregation as a function of PCO2 and mineral particles
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
A laboratory experiment was designed to investigate the effects of ocean acidification (three levels) in the presence or absence of the clay mineral illite (five concentrations)...
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Exposure to carbon dioxide-rich seawater is stressful for some deep-sea species: an in situ, behavioral study
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 275 to 370 ppm; the increase is...
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Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean.
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Seawater pH and the availability of carbonate ions are decreasing due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, posing challenges for calcifying marine species. Marine mussels...
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Effects of pH change by CO2 induction and salinity on the hatching rate of Artemia franciscana
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
To understand the effects of lower pH levels due to elevated CO2 and salinity, we designed and constructed a pH-control system that included automatic CO2 infusion and measured...
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Effects of future climate conditions on photosynthesis and biochemical component of Ulva pertusa (Chlorophyta)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Ulva pertusa, a common bloom-forming green alga, was used as a model system to examine the effects of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) and temperature on growth and photosynthetic...
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Combined metabolome and proteome analysis of the mantle tissue from Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas exposed to elevated pCO2
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Ocean acidification (OA) has been found to affect an array of normal physiological processes in mollusks, especially posing a significant threat to the fabrication process of...
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Oxidative stress induced by titanium dioxide nanoparticles increases under seawater acidification in the thick shell mussel Mytilus coruscus
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Biochemical responses of the mussel Mytilus coruscus exposed to different concentrations of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nano-TiO2) (0, 2.5, 10 mg L−1) and two pH levels (pH...
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Interactive effects of ocean acidification and neighboring corals on the growth of Pocillopora verrucosa
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The physical and chemical environment around corals, as well as their physiology, can be affected by interactions with neighboring corals. This study employed small colonies (4...
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The synergistic effects of ocean acidification and organic metabolism on calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dissolution in coral reef sediments
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to reduce the net ecosystem calcification (NEC) rates and overall accretion of coral reef ecosystems. However, despite the fact that...
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Decreased light availability can amplify negative impacts of ocean acidification on calcifying coral reef organisms
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Coral reef organisms are increasingly and simultaneously affected by global and local stressors such as ocean acidification (OA) and reduced light availability. However,...
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Biogeochemical implications of decomposing jellyfish blooms in a changing climate
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Jellyfish often exhibit ‘boom and bust' population dynamics whereby they proliferate rapidly and then die en masse and decompose. The few studies that have investigated...
21 March 2020This date indicates the date the dataset metadata was last modified on Pacific Data Hub.
