Physiological and behavioral responses, and their variability, in squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, embryos and paralarvae reared under chronic ocean acidification

Ocean acidification (OA) and related stressors, like warming, are occurring rapidly in coastal systems. There is concern about the impacts these stressors may have on the early development of species that use the nearshore as nursery habitat. The inshore longfin squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, plays an important role in the northwest Atlantic food web, and annually lays its eggs in the nearshore benthos during summer. This thesis sought to characterize morphological, physiological, and behavioral responses of D. pealeii embryos and paralarvae to OA. Experiments began in 2013, where I exposed squid eggs to a range of acidification levels (400 2200 ppm CO₂) to uncover when the dosage impacts first appear (around 1300 ppm). To do this, I developed multiple methods to better characterize the morphological changes and surface degradation of statoliths dueto acidification.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Zakroff, Casey James.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• T. Aran Mooney.

• Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering.
• Biology.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123719

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123719