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Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high-CO2 oceans

2015

Excessive CO2 in the present-day ocean-atmosphere system is causing ocean acidification, and is likely to cause a severe biodiversity decline in the future, mirroring effects in many past mass extinctions. Fossil records demonstrate that organisms surviving such events were often smaller than those before, a phenomenon called the Lilliput effect. Here, we show that two gastropod species adapted to acidified seawater at shallow-water CO2 seeps were smaller than those found in normal pH conditions and had higher mass-specific energy consumption but significantly lower whole-animal metabolic energy demand. These physiological changes allowed the animals to maintain calcification and to partial…

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Could the acid-base status of Antarctic sea urchins indicate a better-than-expected resilience to near-future ocean acidification?

2015

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration alters the chemistry of the oceans towards more acidic conditions. Polar oceans are particularly affected due to their low temperature, low carbonate content and mixing patterns, for instance upwellings. Calcifying organisms are expected to be highly impacted by the decrease in the oceans' pH and carbonate ions concentration. In particular, sea urchins, members of the phylum Echinodermata, are hypothesized to be at risk due to their high-magnesium calcite skeleton. However, tolerance to ocean acidification in metazoans is first linked to acid-base regulation capacities of the extracellular fluids. No information on this is available to dat…

Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)SalinityNotocidaris gaussensisBicarbonate ion standard deviationinorganicAlkalinity total standard deviationAlkalinityCoulometric titrationExperimentCarbon inorganic dissolvedTemperature waterSizeCoelomic fluidCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al 2010CalculatedAragonite saturation stateCtenocidaris giganteaAlkalinity totaltotalAmphipneustes loriolipHTemperaturedissolvedAcid base regulationCarbonate ionPartial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)Carbon dioxide standard deviationSterechinus neumayeriEarth System ResearchAporocidaris eltanianaδ13Cstandard deviationField observationPolarStation labelEchinodermataPotentiometric titrationCalcite saturation stateCoelomic fluid alkalinityPotentiometricwaterPartial pressure of carbon dioxideAmphipneustes similisAragonite saturation state standard deviationBenthosDATE TIMEOcean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA ICCSterechinus antarcticusAnimaliaCalcite saturation state standard deviationBicarbonate ionLONGITUDECalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)SpeciesCalculated using CO2SYScarbonEvent labelPartial pressure of carbon dioxide standard deviationCoelomic fluid carbon inorganic dissolvedCarbonate system computation flagAcid-base regulationpH standard deviationCarbonate ion standard deviationFugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)Amphipneustes rostratusPartial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet airDATE/TIMECarbon dioxideDifferenceSingle speciesCoelomic fluid pHLATITUDEFugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet airAntarcticBenthic animalsCoast and continental shelfAbatus cavernosus

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Special Issue: Animals in Law

2018

Living together with animals is silently but progressively coming to a new meaning. Humanity has been always defining itself in comparison with the animal world, looking for any difference useful at the purpose of recognizing a dominion over the world meant as a natural kingdom populated by animals. In the naturalist ontology (Descola), animals are considered as a mere mean, at disposal of mankind for the most various purposes: food, work (workhorses), entertainment (circuses, zoos), scientific experimentation, fashion (leathers and furs), public security (police and sniffer dogs), company (pets) and so on. In the present times, this state of things is undergoing a severe criticism. Risen a…

zoosemiotics law animals biosemioticsSettore M-FIL/05 - Filosofia E Teoria Dei Linguaggi

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