title: Species-specific effects of near-future CO(2) on the respiratory performance of two tropical prey fish and their predator.
abstract: Ocean surface CO2 levels are increasing in line with rising atmospheric CO2 and could exceed 900μatm by year 2100, with extremes above 2000μatm in some coastal habitats. The imminent increase in ocean pCO2 is predicted to have negative consequences for marine fishes, including reduced aerobic performance, but variability among species could be expected. Understanding interspecific responses to ocean acidification is important for predicting the consequences of ocean acidification on communities and ecosystems. In the present study, the effects of exposure to near-future seawater CO2 (860μatm) on resting (M˙ O2rest) and maximum (M˙O2max) oxygen consumption rates were determined for three tropical coral reef fish species interlinked through predator-prey relationships: juvenile Pomacentrus moluccensis and Pomacentrus amboinensis, and one of their predators: adult Pseudochromis fuscus. Contrary to predictions, one of the prey species, P. amboinensis, displayed a 28-39% increase in M˙O2max after both an acute and four-day exposure to near-future CO2 seawater, while maintaining M˙O2rest. By contrast, the same treatment had no significant effects on M˙O2rest or M˙O2max of the other two species. However, acute exposure of P. amboinensis to 1400 and 2400μatm CO2 resulted in M˙O2max returning to control values. Overall, the findings suggest that: (1) the metabolic costs of living in a near-future CO2 seawater environment were insignificant for the species examined at rest; (2) the M˙O2max response of tropical reef species to near-future CO2 seawater can be dependent on the severity of external hypercapnia; and (3) near-future ocean pCO2 may not be detrimental to aerobic scope of all fish species and it may even augment aerobic scope of some species. The present results also highlight that close phylogenetic relatedness and living in the same environment, does not necessarily imply similar physiological responses to near-future CO2.
authors.affiliation: Programme for Physiology and Neurobiology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: christine.couturier@ibv.uio.no.
authors.forename: Christine S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Couturier
authors.forename: Jonathan A W
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Stecyk
authors.forename: Jodie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Rummer
authors.forename: Philip L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Munday
authors.forename: Göran E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Nilsson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D057231:Climate Change; D057894:Coral Reefs; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010473:Perciformes / Q000378:metabolism*; D011235:Predatory Behavior; D012623:Seawater / Q000737:chemistry; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide
keywords: Aerobic metabolic scope; Bioenergetics; Climate change; Coral reef fishes; Predator–prey relationship
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