{"id":29112,"date":"2018-04-23T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=29112"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:49:07","slug":"rising-atmospheric-co2-levels-affecting-cephalopod-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/rising-atmospheric-co2-levels-affecting-cephalopod-behaviors.htm","title":{"rendered":"Rising Atmospheric CO2 Levels Affecting Cephalopod Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carbon dioxide, CO2, is a waste product for animals, including humans. That means that too much of it can be dangerous. In humans, excessive exposure to CO2 can kill, but in lesser amounts it can also affect the blood&#8217;s pH level, causing acidemia.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.tufts.edu\/data\/33\/508776.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acidemia can cause nerve damage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including hallucinations, delirium, and seizures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far less is known about the subtler effects of CO2 on cephalopods, but this is in large part because far less is known about cephalopods, generally. However,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/gcb.14098\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from scientists at James Cook University (JCU) in Australia reveals that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 may cause strange behavioral effects in cephalopods\u2014effects that are likely to be dangerous to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blake Spady<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a PhD candidate from the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coralcoe.org.au\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at JCU, corresponded with EM about the research and the investigation, which he led.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">Setting the CO2 scene<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/programs\/keelingcurve\/2013\/07\/03\/how-much-co2-can-the-oceans-take-up\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just over one-quarter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of CO2 released into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere is absorbed by oceans. This process leads to the acidification of our oceans, which<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/ocean-acidification-disrupting-marine-food-webs.htm\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disrupts food webs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/coral-skeletal-density-threatened-ocean-acidification.htm\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threatens coral<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/mussels-cope-ocean-acidification-sheds-light-effects-climate-change.htm\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other marine creatures such as mussels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Without a major humanity-wide effort to reduce emissions of CO2, these problems will become severe relatively quickly, and certainly by the end of the century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spady and his team investigated the effects of CO2 on cephalopods, a classification that includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, because to date, most research in this area has focused on fish. The effects of rising atmospheric CO2 levels on invertebrates remain mostly mysterious. This is important, because cephalopods play a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0967064512000859\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">critical role in marine food webs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, preying on a wide range of creatures and themselves serving as food for many predators, including humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team investigated how elevated CO2 affected the hunting behaviors of bigfin reef squid and pygmy squid. They found that 20 percent fewer pygmy squid attacked prey after being exposed to elevated CO2 levels, and those that did attack were less adept; there was no disparity in proportion of bigfin reef squid who attacked prey, but they attacked less effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen they did decide to attack the prey, they altered their predatory strategies or decision making during that attack compared to squid at control CO2 conditions,\u201d explains Spady. \u201cThis includes things like taking longer to initiate their attack, attacking from further away, a reduced preference for attacking the posterior (rear end) of the prey, and changes in the body pattern choice during the attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team tested these effects in a controlled laboratory environment using aquaria systems at current day control CO2 level, comparing these conditions with those projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/explainer-the-high-emissions-rcp8-5-global-warming-scenario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upper end-of-century projection (RCP8.5)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe did not find, despite these altered behaviors, that this caused them to become less likely to capture their prey,\u201d remarks Spady. \u201cHowever, these experiments were carried out in a controlled laboratory and in the wild, with increased variables and unpredictable circumstances, these changes in behavior could allow prey greater opportunity to escape, but this cannot be confirmed without field studies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team also found that under elevated CO2 conditions both species exhibited increased activity when they weren&#8217;t hunting, indicating that they might be altering their \u201cenergy budgets\u201d to their detriment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAn energy budget is something that all animals must maintain; it is essentially a balance of energy income against energy expenditure,\u201d details Spady. \u201cJetting, the primary mode of locomotion in squid, is relatively inefficient due to the significant output of energy required from their mantle muscles and requires a high demand of energy and oxygen. This means that their energy budget must be finely tuned to allocate energy towards other tasks such as reproductive tasks and digestion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">Adapting to new conditions<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This research indicates that elevated CO2 levels are likely to impact a variety of cephalopods, given that the two under study here represent different orders and are within niches that are mostly distinct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is important to note that what we found here was similar effects of elevated CO2 on two separate orders of cephalopod,\u201d clarifies Spady. \u201cAn example of a cephalopod order would be &#8216;squid&#8217;, &#8216;cuttlefish&#8217;, or &#8216;octopus&#8217;. While the bigfin reef squid used here are a true squid (order Teuthida), the pygmy squid, despite their common name, is a member of the order Idiosepiida which is more closely related to cuttlefish (order Sepiida). This implies that there is potential for the behaviors of a very wide range of cephalopods to be affected by elevated CO2.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, cephalopods are also well-suited to survive changing conditions in some ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSquid are opportunistic hunters and feed on a wide range of prey species; this could certainly give them an advantage over predatory specialists assuming a shortage or migration of their specific prey species as a result of changing ocean conditions,\u201d details Spady. \u201cHowever, the traits of squid that propose to give them the greatest advantage in succeeding in our future oceans is their short lifespans, large populations, and high intrinsic rate of population increase which potentially allows for rapid selection of genotypes more tolerant to elevated CO2 conditions compared to many other marine species.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_29116\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29116\" class=\"wp-image-29116 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cephalopod_chromatophores.jpg\" alt=\"cephalopod\" width=\"900\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cephalopod_chromatophores.jpg 900w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cephalopod_chromatophores-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cephalopod_chromatophores-600x326.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cephalopod_chromatophores-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chromatophores in squid allow body pattern displays. (Credit: By Minette from Seattle, Washington, (Chromatophores) [CC BY 2.0])<\/p><\/div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most interesting aspects of this work is the unusual body patterns the team observed under the higher CO2 conditions. Cephalopods engage in sometimes stunning and often puzzling displays thanks to their chromatophores, structural features in the skin that allow them to undergo rapid, expressive color changes. It&#8217;s not clear whether cephalopods show the behavior patterns the team observed here under any other conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe body patterns in cephalopods are extremely complex and not very well understood, remarks Spady. \u201cAlong with their obvious utilization for camouflage and cryptic behaviors, body patterns are used for communication with other members of the species, confusing or disorienting prey, and as a warning to predators. It is not clear what the body patterns displayed in this study indicate, but only that there was a significant difference in the types of displays used among CO2 treatment levels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, Spady and the team hopes to investigate how well squid can adapt to future ocean conditions due to their fast life cycle. To do this, they will need to test how cephalopods react to both elevated CO2 and control conditions over successive generations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 may affect cephalopod behaviors\u2014in potentially detrimental ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":29115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[118,139,60,478,109],"class_list":["post-29112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquatic_species-htm","category-featured-articles","tag-aquatic-species","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-featured","tag-james-cook-university","tag-news-ticker"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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