Assessing the influence of ocean acidification to marine amphipods: A comparative study

Passarelli, M.C.; Riba, Inmaculada; César, Augusto; Serrano-Bernando, F.; DelValls, T. Ángel

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.004

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“…Aiming to mimic scenarios of acidification associated with CO 2 enrichment in the marine environment, a CO 2 injection system was employed for ecotoxicological assessment and for mesocosms using macro-benthic community structure (Figure 2). The system was previously described by [19] and updated by [21]. Briefly, the AT Control System from Aqua Medic (Bissendorf, Germany) was used to independently manipulate and control the pH in each chamber test.…”

Section: Co 2 Injection Systemmentioning

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Integrative Assessment of Sediments Affected by CO2 Enrichment: A Case Study in the Bay of Santos—SP, Brazil

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CO2 enrichment in the marine environment caused by leakages from carbon capture and storage technologies may occur over operational procedures. An integrated approach using weight-of-evidence was applied to assess the environmental risk associated with the acidification caused by CO2 enrichment in coastal sediments from Santos (Brazil). Chemical analyses (metal(loid)s and organic contaminant (e.g., hydrocarbons), toxicity tests (amphipods mortality, sea-urchin embryo-larval development) and macro-benthic community structure alteration assessment were performed with different acidified scenarios (pH 8.0–6.0) for two stations with different contamination degrees. These lines of evidence were statistically analyzed and integrated (multivariate analysis and ANOVA). Results of toxicity showed significant chronic effects starting at pH 7.0 while acute effects were observed starting at pH 6.5. The macro-benthic community integrity showed significant differences for all treatments at the Piaçaguera channel station, considered to be moderately contaminated. Results from the multivariate analysis correlated toxic effects and increase in the mobility of some elements with acidification. Also, the biological indexes were correlated with concentrations of dissolved Zn in seawater. The pH of 6.0 was extremely toxic for marine life due to its high acidification and metal bioavailability. The approach herein identified and discriminated the origin of the degradation caused by the acidification related to the enrichment of CO2.

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“…Recent studies have evaluated the relationship between decrease in seawater pH, adverse effects on marine organisms, and changes in the metal concentrations [7,8,[18][19][20][21][22][23]. However, none of these studies have been designed or applied under an integrative point of view using multiples lines of evidence as recommended by [24].…”

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Integrative Assessment of Sediments Affected by CO2 Enrichment: A Case Study in the Bay of Santos—SP, Brazil

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“…There are several studies that investigated effects of decreasing pH on marine amphipods (Benítez et al, 2016 ; Brown et al, 2020 ; Egilsdottir et al, 2009 ; Goulding et al, 2017 ; Hauton et al, 2009 ; Passarelli et al, 2017 ; Schram et al, 2016 ), but some species appear to be more resilient than others (Passarelli et al, 2017 ). Crustaceans may not be as much affected by ocean acidification as mollusks or echinoderms, because their exoskeletal CaCO 3 is mostly in the more stable form of calcite rather than the more soluble aragonite form (Whiteley, 2011 and citations therein).…”

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“…Since all female amphipods brood their young in a ventral marsupium (brood pouch) until they are released as juveniles, it is believed that generally the dispersal ability of benthic Amphipoda is limited. Moreover, amphipods have been shown to exhibit, direct or indirect, responses to climate‐related effects, such as to acidification (Egilsdottir et al, 2009 ; Passarelli et al, 2017 ; Schram et al, 2016 ), warming (Mouritsen et al, 2005 ), salinity changes (Egilsdottir et al, 2009 ), or shifts in food availability (Havermans et al, 2019 ; Horton et al, 2020 ). However, to date, such studies have only used a limited set of variables (one or two), but knowingly the effects of climate change are complex and factors may be interrelated (e.g., Parmesan, 2006 ).…”

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Niche breadth and biodiversity change derived from marine Amphipoda species off Iceland

Lörz

Oldeland²,

Kaiser

2022

Ecology and Evolution

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Understanding the ecological requirements and thresholds of individual species is crucial to better predict potential outcomes of climate change on species distribution. In particular, species optima and lower and upper limits along resource gradients require attention. Based on Huisman‐Olff‐Fresco (HOF) models, we determined species‐specific responses along gradients of nine environmental parameters including depth in order to estimate niche attributes of 30 deep‐sea benthic amphipods occurring around Iceland. We, furthermore, examined the relationships between niche breadth, occupancy, and geographic range assuming that species with a wider niche are spatially more widely dispersed and vice versa. Overall, our results reveal that species react very differently to environmental gradients, which is independent of the family affiliation of the respective species. We could infer a strong relationship between occupancy and geographic range and also relate this to differences in niche breadth; that is specialist species with a narrow niche had a more limited distribution and may thus be more threatened by changing environmental conditions than generalist species, which are more widespread. Given the preponderance of rare species in the deep sea, this implies that many species could be at risk. However, this must be carefully weighed against geographical data gaps in this area, given that many deep‐sea areas are severely undersampled and the true distribution of most species is unknown. After all, our results underline that an accurate taxonomic classification is of crucial importance, without which ecological niche properties cannot be determined and which is hence fundamental for the assessment and understanding of changes in biodiversity in the face of increasing human perturbations.

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“…Amphipods are also a good choice as a biomonitor taxa as they are abundant and resistant to handling stress, as well as being the principal prey of numerous organisms (Conti et al, 2016;Marsden & Rainbow, 2004;Picone et al, 2008). Internationally, amphipods are used widely for testing contamination in sediments for the same attributes that make them suitable biomonitors (Brown et al, 1999;Marsden & Rainbow, 2004;Passarelli et al, 2017;Porri et al, 2011).…”

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Using amphipods as bioindicators of metal pollution in the marine environment

Holmes¹

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<p>Heavy metals in the marine environment are a worldwide issue due to their toxicity, non-biodegradability and their ability to accumulate and magnify in organisms. Increased human activity has caused higher inputs of heavy metals, resulting in escalated pressures on delicate coastal ecosystems. A means of assessing the natural environment and how it is changing in response to pollution and other environmental degradation is through the use of biological indicator or biomonitor species. These organisms provide information on the bioavailability of metals present in the environment. In recent years amphipods, a diverse order of small crustaceans, have been increasingly used as bioindicators of disturbed aquatic communities. They are widespread and important components of many food webs, and likely to be frequently exposed to metal contamination through both sediment and seawater. The aim of this research was two-fold: 1) to use amphipods to examine variation across sites and species in concentration of 20+ trace elements and 2) to examine whether the uptake of two metals, copper (Cu) and neodymium (Nd), is mediated by the presence of the other metal or an elevated seawater temperature. To investigate variation of trace element concentrations across sites, the amphipod Eusiroides monoculoides was collected from three sites in the Wellington region, approximately 5 km apart: Oriental Bay, Evans Bay and Point Halswell. To investigate differences amongst species comparisons were made between Eusiroides monoculoides, Apohyale papanuiensis and Sunamphitoe mixtura when they occurred at the same site. Analysing the trace element concentrations of 36 metals was done using an Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS). Overall, although these sites were not greatly distant from each other, there were differences among sites. Evans Bay in general had the highest concentration of trace elements. Further, there were also species-specific differences and S. mixtura was the species with the highest concentration of trace elements. There was also a size effect, where the average dry weight of S. mixtura was negatively related to the concentration of trace elements in the body. To assess the effects of heavy metals Cu and Nd in both an ambient (14 °C) and elevated (20 °C) temperature, an experiment was run at Victoria University’s Coastal Ecology Lab (VUCEL). Sand hoppers, Bellorchestia quoyana, were collected from a single site in Wellington (Scorching Bay) and assigned to eight treatments: ambient and warm controls in raw seawater and ambient and warm seawater doped with Cu, Nd and Cu and Nd together. Amphipods from treatments with Cu and Nd added had significantly higher concentrations of these metals from the controls, however temperature had no effect, and neither was there an interaction between the metals. Similar to S. mixtura from the field study, dry weight of B. quoyana was negatively related to the concentration of trace elements in the body. Results from this work demonstrate that when using amphipods as bioindicator species it is important to consider species and size specific effects. This thesis also provides baseline data for 20+ elements from three Wellington sites and demonstrates that there can be unexpected variation across relatively small spatial scales. The laboratory experiment did not yield results that coincided with the consensus of the literature. The experiment showed that at least in this case, temperature did not mediate the uptake of metals and there was a negative relationship between size and metal uptake.</p>

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Assessing the influence of ocean acidification to marine amphipods: A comparative study

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Integrative Assessment of Sediments Affected by CO2 Enrichment: A Case Study in the Bay of Santos—SP, Brazil

Integrative Assessment of Sediments Affected by CO2 Enrichment: A Case Study in the Bay of Santos—SP, Brazil

Niche breadth and biodiversity change derived from marine Amphipoda species off Iceland

Using amphipods as bioindicators of metal pollution in the marine environment

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