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Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, June 2016
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Title
Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean
Published in
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, June 2016
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.0392
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Catherine A. Pfister, Kaustuv Roy, J. Timothy Wootton, Sophie J. McCoy, Robert T. Paine, Thomas H. Suchanek, Eric Sanford

Abstract

Seawater pH and the availability of carbonate ions are decreasing due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, posing challenges for calcifying marine species. Marine mussels are of particular concern given their role as foundation species worldwide. Here, we document shell growth and calcification patterns in Mytilus californianus, the California mussel, over millennial and decadal scales. By comparing shell thickness across the largest modern shells, the largest mussels collected in the 1960s-1970s and shells from two Native American midden sites (∼1000-2420 years BP), we found that modern shells are thinner overall, thinner per age category and thinner per unit length. Thus, the largest individuals of this species are calcifying less now than in the past. Comparisons of shell thickness in smaller individuals over the past 10-40 years, however, do not show significant shell thinning. Given our sampling strategy, these results are unlikely to simply reflect within-site variability or preservation effects. Review of environmental and biotic drivers known to affect shell calcification suggests declining ocean pH as a likely explanation for the observed shell thinning. Further future decreases in shell thickness could have significant negative impacts on M. californianus survival and, in turn, negatively impact the species-rich complex that occupies mussel beds.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 114 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 17%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Other 10 9%
Student > Master 9 8%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 27 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 30%
Environmental Science 23 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 11 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 30 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 211. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2023.
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#432
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#12
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