In some cases, temperature exacerbates the impact of ocean acidification (Rodolfo-Metalpa et al., 2011), or in other cases, elevated temperature completely removes the negative impacts of elevated pCO2 (Ko et al., 2014).
Why does temperature exacerbate ocean acidification in some cases but negate it in others? Does location make a difference? Type of habitat? Weather patterns? Local human activity?
Warming caused crustaceans to actively avoid M. galloprovincialis (Table 1). Conversely, at ambient temperature, polychaetes actively avoided M. galloprovincialis but showed no behavioural preferences under warming. For molluscs, at ambient temperature, they actively chose to colonise T. hirsuta, but under warming, their preference was altered to actively choose M. galloprovincialis
Why does changing the temperature from ambient to warming cause such drastic behavioral changes in the infauna colonizing the different species of mussels?