Quantifying fish otolith mineralogy for trace-element chemistry studies
Abstract
Otoliths are frequently used to infer environmental conditions or fish life history events based on trace-element concentrations. However, otoliths can be comprised of any one or combination of the three most common polymorphs of calcium carbonate - aragonite, calcite, and vaterite - which can affect the ecological interpretation of otolith trace-element results. Previous studies have reported heterogeneous calcium carbonate compositions between left and right otoliths but did not provide quantitative assessments of polymorph abundances. In this study, neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy were used to identify and quantify mineralogical compositions of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha otolith pairs. We found mineralogical compositions frequently differed between otoliths in a pair and accurate calcium carbonate polymorph identification was rarely possible by visual inspection alone. The prevalence of multiple polymorphs in otoliths is not well-understood, and future research should focus on identifying otolith compositions and investigate how variations in mineralogy affect trace-element incorporation and potentially bias environmental interpretations.
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- Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1846559
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; animal migration; biological techniques; conservation biology; stable isotope analysis; structural biology
Citation Formats
Wood, Robert S., Fortner, Allison M., Gillies-Rector, Kat, Chakoumakos, Bryan C., Frontzek, Matthias D., Ivanov, Ilia N., Kah, Linda C., Kennedy, Brian, and Pracheil, Brenda M. Quantifying fish otolith mineralogy for trace-element chemistry studies. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-06721-7.
Wood, Robert S., Fortner, Allison M., Gillies-Rector, Kat, Chakoumakos, Bryan C., Frontzek, Matthias D., Ivanov, Ilia N., Kah, Linda C., Kennedy, Brian, & Pracheil, Brenda M. Quantifying fish otolith mineralogy for trace-element chemistry studies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06721-7
Wood, Robert S., Fortner, Allison M., Gillies-Rector, Kat, Chakoumakos, Bryan C., Frontzek, Matthias D., Ivanov, Ilia N., Kah, Linda C., Kennedy, Brian, and Pracheil, Brenda M. Thu .
"Quantifying fish otolith mineralogy for trace-element chemistry studies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06721-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1846559.
@article{osti_1846559,
title = {Quantifying fish otolith mineralogy for trace-element chemistry studies},
author = {Wood, Robert S. and Fortner, Allison M. and Gillies-Rector, Kat and Chakoumakos, Bryan C. and Frontzek, Matthias D. and Ivanov, Ilia N. and Kah, Linda C. and Kennedy, Brian and Pracheil, Brenda M.},
abstractNote = {Otoliths are frequently used to infer environmental conditions or fish life history events based on trace-element concentrations. However, otoliths can be comprised of any one or combination of the three most common polymorphs of calcium carbonate - aragonite, calcite, and vaterite - which can affect the ecological interpretation of otolith trace-element results. Previous studies have reported heterogeneous calcium carbonate compositions between left and right otoliths but did not provide quantitative assessments of polymorph abundances. In this study, neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy were used to identify and quantify mineralogical compositions of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha otolith pairs. We found mineralogical compositions frequently differed between otoliths in a pair and accurate calcium carbonate polymorph identification was rarely possible by visual inspection alone. The prevalence of multiple polymorphs in otoliths is not well-understood, and future research should focus on identifying otolith compositions and investigate how variations in mineralogy affect trace-element incorporation and potentially bias environmental interpretations.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-06721-7},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Thu Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}
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