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Data accompanying: Crustose coralline algae display sensitivity to near future global ocean change scenarios

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Most research investigating how ocean warming and acidification will impact marine species has focused on visually dominant species, such as kelps and corals, while ignoring visually cryptic species such as crustose coralline algae (CCA). CCA are important keystone species that provide settlement cues for invertebrate larvae and can be highly sensitive to global ocean change. However, few studies have assessed how CCA respond to low emission scenarios or conditions. In a laboratory experiment, we examined the responses of temperate CCA assemblages to combined warming and acidification projected under low, medium, and high emissions. Net calcification and net photosynthesis significantly declined in all emissions scenarios, while significant reductions in relative growth rates and increases in percentage bleaching were observed in the highest emission scenario. The negative responses of CCA to both low and medium emissions suggest that they may be adversely impacted by combined warming and acidification by 2030 if current emissions are sustained. This will have far reaching consequences for commercially important invertebrates that rely on them to induce settlement of larvae. These findings highlight the need to take rapid action to preserve these critical keystone species and the valuable services they provide.

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Title Data accompanying: Crustose coralline algae display sensitivity to near future global ocean change scenarios
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8e0eebe1-6a50-4797-b8a8-6421037be6b5
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
damon.britton@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 25/02/2019 - 10/04/2019
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Data accompanying: Crustose coralline algae display sensitivity to near future global ocean change scenarios". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/data-accompanying-crustose-coralline-algae-display-sensitivity-to-near-future-global-ocean-chan