Bathyal octopus, , living in a world of acid: First recordings of routine metabolic rate and critical oxygen partial pressures of a deep water species under elevated CO.

Elevated atmospheric CO as a result of human activity is dissolving into the world's oceans, driving a drop in pH, and making them more acidic. Here we present the first data on the impacts of ocean acidification on a bathyal species of octopus . A recent discovery of a shallow living population in the Salish Sea, Washington United States allowed collection SCUBA and maintenance in the lab.