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المؤلفBen-Hamadou, Radhouane
المؤلفAboshanab, Rawan
المؤلفSherif, Ahmed
المؤلفAl-Mandili, Monzer
المؤلفOmer, Ghadeer
المؤلفShabbir, Fahad
المؤلفKazmi, Sayed
المؤلفRange, Pedro
المؤلفAl-Maslamani, Ibrahim
المؤلفObbard, Jeffrey
تاريخ الإتاحة2017-05-22T05:32:10Z
تاريخ النشر2016-11-30
اسم المنشورQScience Proceedings
المعرّفhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.qulss.29
الاقتباسBen-Hamadou R, Aboshanab R, Sherif A, Al-Mandili M, Omer G, Shabbir F, Kazmi S, Range P, Al-Maslamani I, Obbard J. "Uncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters." QScience Proceedings: Vol. 2016, QULSS 2016: Biodiversity, Sustainability and Climate Change, with Perspectives from Qatar, 12.
الرقم المعياري الدولي للكتاب2226-9649
معرّف المصادر الموحدhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/5515
الملخصThe combustion of fossil fuels is pushing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) to unprecedented levels. This rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing global changes, with noticeable increases in temperature, sea level rise and changes to marine carbon chemistry (i.e., Ocean Acidification - OA). The today average pH of ocean surface waters has already declined by 0.1 units from pre-industrial levels. According to the IPCC representative concentration pathways (RCPs), further declines in pH are predicted until the end of the century, varying between 0.14 units and 0.43 units. OA is irreversible on short time frames and previous studies have shown the potential impacts of ocean acidification on the physiology, reproduction, immunology and behavior of marine organisms, with effects already documented in multiple species and several regions of the world, although not in the Arabian Gulf. Nevertheless, the strong environmental variability of the Arabian Gulf presents good opportunities to study the potential impacts of future global change on marine ecosystems and to investigate the underlying mechanisms governing their resistance and adaptation to future environmental extremes. In this research we are targeting the response of zooplanktonic assemblages to OA, since these are commonly used as bioindicators of environmental and climate driven impact on marine ecosystems. The approach is mainly experimental, using controlled CO2 perturbation experiments, done aboard the Qatar University research vessel “Janan”. We are specifically investigating the response of zooplankton communities to relevant scenarios of seawater acidification by CO2, in terms of assemblage composition and structure; respiration rates; and egg production rates. The first round of experiments was conducted during a 3 day cruise offshore from Doha (June 3–5, 2016); complemented with a second cruise and round of experiments (November 17–19, 2016). Results provide insightful information about zooplankton communities’ responses to high CO2 levels in seawater of the Arabian Gulf and contribute to a better understanding about the biogeochemistry of coastal marine areas in Qatar, and more broadly in the Arabian Gulf.
راعي المشروعThis study is funded by QNRF through the project “Zooplankton community responses to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters (UREP18-177-1-021).
اللغةen_ar
الناشرHamad Bin Khalifa University Press
الموضوعQatar
zooplankton
acidification
CO2
climate change
sustainability
Biodiversity
العنوانUncovering responses of zooplankton community to CO2 acidification in Qatar coastal waters
النوعConference
رقم العدد4
رقم المجلد2016
dc.accessType Open Access


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