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Being a bimineralic bryozoan in an acidifying ocean
Smith, A.M.; Garden, C.J. (2013). Being a bimineralic bryozoan in an acidifying ocean, in: Ernst, A. et al. Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 143: pp. 327-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_22
In: Ernst, A.; Schäfer, P.; Scholz, J. (Ed.) (2013). Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 143. Springer: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-642-16410-1. viii, 463 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8, more
In: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer: Heidelberg; Berlin. ISSN 2193-8571; e-ISSN 2193-858X, more

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Keywords
    Acidification
    Minerals > Carbonate minerals > Aragonite
    Minerals > Carbonate minerals > Calcite
    Water bodies > Oceans
    Bryozoa [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Experimental dissolution

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  • Smith, A.M.
  • Garden, C.J.

Abstract
    Strongly controlled calcification by bryozoans means that some species maintain complex skeletons formed of more than one mineral. Whether they are mainly intermediate-Mg calcitic with up to 50% aragonite, mainly aragonitic with small amounts of high-Mg calcite (>8 wt.% MgCO3), or formed of both high- and low-Mg calcites, preservation of sediments formed of these bimineralic bryozoan skeletons may be more at risk from ocean acidification than the majority of bryozoan sediments formed of monomineralic skeletons. An acid-bath immersion experiment on seven species reveals that three (Adeonella sp., Adeonella patagonica, and Adeonellopsis sp.) are more resistant to dissolution than the other four. Skeletal carbonate mineralogy appears to influence dissolution history very little: the most soluble aragonite and high-Mg calcite species, Adeonellopsis sp., was more highly resistant to dissolution than species dominated by low-Mg calcite. In the context of ocean acidification, it is likely that bryozoan skeletons with high surface area and small delicate morphologies are at greatest risk of dissolution, irrespective of mineralogical composition.

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