Physico-chemical parameters of seawater during the exposure of the marine calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa to hypoxia and marine heatwave events@en

Specimens of the marine calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa were exposed for five days under laboratory conditions to the isolated or combined effects of hypoxia and a marine heatwave event to test for their sex-specific life-history and physiological responses to these stressors. Four treatments were used: Control (C: 18 °C, 100 % O₂ sat.), Hypoxia (H: 18 °C, 35 % O₂ sat.), marine heatwave (MHW: 25 °C, 100 % O₂ sat.) and combined conditions (HMHW: 25 °C, 35 % O₂ sat.). This dataset compiles the physico-chemical parameters of the seawater (i.e. temperature, oxygen saturation, pH and salinity) in the aquaria holding the copepods during the five-day exposure experiment.