Ocean acidification alters fish-jellyfish symbiosis

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Hauptverfasser: Nagelkerken, Ivan, Pitt, Kylie A, Rutte, Melchior D, Geertsma, Robbert C
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author Nagelkerken, Ivan
Pitt, Kylie A
Rutte, Melchior D
Geertsma, Robbert C
author_facet Nagelkerken, Ivan
Pitt, Kylie A
Rutte, Melchior D
Geertsma, Robbert C
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Symbiotic relationships are common in nature, and are important for individual fitness and sustaining species populations. Global change is rapidly altering environmental conditions, but, with the exception of coral?microalgae interactions, we know little of how this will affect symbiotic relationships. We here test how the effects of ocean acidification, from rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions, may alter symbiotic interactions between juvenile fish and their jellyfish hosts. Fishes treated with elevated seawater CO2 concentrations, as forecast for the end of the century on a business-as-usual greenhouse gas emission scenario, were negatively affected in their behaviour. The total time that fish (yellowtail scad) spent close to their jellyfish host in a choice arena where they could see and smell their host was approximately three times shorter under future compared with ambient CO2 conditions. Likewise, the mean number of attempts to associate with jellyfish was almost three times lower in CO2-treated compared with control fish, while only 63% (high CO2) versus 86% (control) of all individuals tested initiated an association at all. By contrast, none of three fish species tested were attracted solely to jellyfish olfactory cues under present-day CO2 conditions, suggesting that the altered fish?jellyfish association is not driven by negative effects of ocean acidification on olfaction. Because shelter is not widely available in the open water column and larvae of many (and often commercially important) pelagic species associate with jellyfish for protection against predators, modification of the fish?jellyfish symbiosis might lead to higher mortality and alter species population dynamics, and potentially have flow-on effects for their fisheries.
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spellingShingle Ocean acidification alters fish-jellyfish symbiosis
Nagelkerken, Ivan
Pitt, Kylie A
Rutte, Melchior D
Geertsma, Robbert C
Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Argyrosomus japonicus; Behaviour; Bicarbonate ion; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Chordata; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2); Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Laboratory experiment; Lates calcarifer; Location; Nekton; OA-ICC; Ocean acidification; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air), standard error; Pelagos; pH, NBS scale; pH, standard error; pH, total scale; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Registration number of species; Replicates; Salinity; Salinity, standard error; South Pacific; Species; Species interaction; Temperate; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Time; Time in seconds; Trachurus novaezelandiae; Treatment; Type; Uniform resource locator/link to reference
Symbiotic relationships are common in nature, and are important for individual fitness and sustaining species populations. Global change is rapidly altering environmental conditions, but, with the exception of coral?microalgae interactions, we know little of how this will affect symbiotic relationships. We here test how the effects of ocean acidification, from rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions, may alter symbiotic interactions between juvenile fish and their jellyfish hosts. Fishes treated with elevated seawater CO2 concentrations, as forecast for the end of the century on a business-as-usual greenhouse gas emission scenario, were negatively affected in their behaviour. The total time that fish (yellowtail scad) spent close to their jellyfish host in a choice arena where they could see and smell their host was approximately three times shorter under future compared with ambient CO2 conditions. Likewise, the mean number of attempts to associate with jellyfish was almost three times lower in CO2-treated compared with control fish, while only 63% (high CO2) versus 86% (control) of all individuals tested initiated an association at all. By contrast, none of three fish species tested were attracted solely to jellyfish olfactory cues under present-day CO2 conditions, suggesting that the altered fish?jellyfish association is not driven by negative effects of ocean acidification on olfaction. Because shelter is not widely available in the open water column and larvae of many (and often commercially important) pelagic species associate with jellyfish for protection against predators, modification of the fish?jellyfish symbiosis might lead to higher mortality and alter species population dynamics, and potentially have flow-on effects for their fisheries.
title Ocean acidification alters fish-jellyfish symbiosis
topic Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Argyrosomus japonicus; Behaviour; Bicarbonate ion; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Chordata; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2); Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Laboratory experiment; Lates calcarifer; Location; Nekton; OA-ICC; Ocean acidification; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air), standard error; Pelagos; pH, NBS scale; pH, standard error; pH, total scale; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Registration number of species; Replicates; Salinity; Salinity, standard error; South Pacific; Species; Species interaction; Temperate; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard error; Time; Time in seconds; Trachurus novaezelandiae; Treatment; Type; Uniform resource locator/link to reference
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.869633