A Review and Meta-Analysis of Potential Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Calcifiers From the Southern Ocean combines a literature review with quantitative meta-analysis. The dataset, published by Figuerola et al. in 2021 and hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network, provides an overview of skeletal mineralogy across major taxonomic groups. It projects how ocean acidification might affect a broad range of Southern Ocean taxa based on species' geographic range, mineralogy, and biological traits.
Use Cases
- Projecting species vulnerability to ocean acidification based on skeletal mineralogy and biological traits.
- Analyzing response variation in shell state, development, and growth rate across different mineralogical compositions.
- Comparing the resilience of low-Mg calcite species versus aragonite and high-Mg calcite species to changing carbonate chemistry.
Strengths
- Integrates a quantitative meta-analysis of studies on biological responses to ocean acidification.
- Considers multiple factors influencing vulnerability, including species' geographic range, skeletal mineralogy, and biological traits.
- Focuses on the Southern Ocean, a region projected to be severely affected by acidification.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect publication bias inherent to the meta-analysis of available scientific literature.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Combines a literature review with a quantitative meta-analysis of existing studies.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-04 07:23:23.683104; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southern Ocean