| Title | Ocean acidification stress index for shellfish (OASIS): Linking Pacific oyster larval survival and exposure to variable carbonate chemistry regimes |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Gimenez, Iria, George G. Waldbusser, and Burke Hales |
| Secondary Title | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
| Volume | 6 |
| Number | Article 51 |
| Pagination | 18 p. |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Netarts Bay, Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery, Pacific oyster = Crassostrea gigas, aquaculture, aquatic invertebrates, bivalves, calcium carbonate, molluscs, ocean acidification, physiology, stress |
| Notes | It is important to understand how larval bivalves respond to variations in seawater chemistry. Ocean acidification has begun to adversely affect shellfish, particularly shell formation in larvae. In response, oyster growers have found it necessary to buffer seawater. In this paper, the authors recount the development of a metric, the ocean acidification stress index for shellfish (OASIS). The metric was tested against seawater conditions in Netarts Bay. “We measured survival . . . of four Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) cohorts with different histories of carbonate chemistry exposure at the Whiskey Creek Hatchery, Netarts Bay, OR, to test the utility of OASIS as a stress metric and document the effects of buffering seawater mitigating acute and chronic exposure to ocean acidification.” (from the Abstract) |
| URL | https://www.elementascience.org/article/10.1525/elementa.306/ |
| DOI | 10.1525/elementa.306 |
| Series Title | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
