| Title | Ocean Acidification Impacts on Bivalves at Multiple Organizational Levels: From Individual Larvae to Bivalve Aggregations Habitats |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Calvo, Iria Gimenez |
| Secondary Title | College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences<br/>OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Volume | Ph. D. |
| Pagination | 210 p. |
| University | Oregon State University |
| City | Corvallis, Or. |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | aquaculture,, aquatic invertebrates,, bivalves,, calcium carbonate,, Chesapeake Bay, larvae, molluscs,, Netarts Bay,, ocean acidification,, Pacific oyster = Crassostrea gigas,, physiology,, stress, theses, upwelling, Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery, |
| Notes | This doctoral dissertation is concerned with the ways bivalves respond to ocean acidification. The author developed an oceanic acidification stress index to track carbonate chemistry in marine and estuarine waters. The index was tested with different groups of larval oysters in seawater with differing carbonate chemistry and accurately predicted larval survival. Further studies were focused on whether oyster reefs could buffer seawater and provide protection from acidification. The author showed that living oyster reefs could provide small buffered enclaves, but the reef needed to be living. This work shows impressive work against a real problem. The major professor was George G. Waldbusser. |
| URL | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/zw12zb418 |
