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Connecting pH with body size in the marine gastropod Trophon geversianus in a latitudinal gradient along the south-western Atlantic coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2016

Mariano E. Malvé ,
Sandra Gordillo  and
Marcelo M. Rivadeneira
Mariano E. Malvé*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sársfield 299 X5000JJC Córdoba, Argentina
Sandra Gordillo
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA, CONICET-UNC), Av. Vélez Sársfield 1611 X5016GCA Córdoba, Argentina
Marcelo M. Rivadeneira
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Paleobiología, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA) & Universidad Católica del Norte, Av. Bernardo Ossandón 877, C.P. 1781681, Coquimbo, Chile
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M.E. Malvé, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sársfield 299 X5000JJC Córdoba, Argentina email: marianomalve@gmail.com
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Abstract

There is growing concern about the impact of contemporaneous ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, but strong evidence for predicting the consequences is still scant. We have used the gastropod Trophon geversianus as a study model for exploring the importance of oceanographic variables (sea surface temperature, chlorophyll a, oxygen, calcite and pH) on large-scale latitudinal variation in mean shell length and relative shell weight. Data were collected from a survey carried out in 34 sites along ~1600 km. Neither shell length nor relative shell weight showed any monotonic latitudinal trend, and the patterns of spatial variability were rather complex. After correcting for spatial autocorrelation, only pH showed a significant correlation with mean shell length and relative shell weight, but contrary to expectations, the association was negative in both cases. We hypothesize that this could mirror the negative effect of acidification on growth rate, which may cause larger asymptotic size. Latitudinal trends of body size variation are not easy to generalize using ecogeographic rules, and may be the result of a complex interaction of environmental drivers and life-history responses.

Keywords

Argentinean coastBergmann's rulebody sizedeath assemblagemarine gastropodMuricidaeocean acidificationPatagoniatemperature-size rule
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 98 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 449 - 456
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2016 

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