Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification during experiments with a coral Madracis auretenra, 2010, supplement to: Jury, Christopher P; Whitehead, Robert F; Szmant, A M (2010): Effects of variations in carbonate chemistry on the calcification rates of Madracis auretenra (= Madracis mirabilis sensu Wells, 1973): bicarbonate concentrations best predict calcification rates. Global Change Biology, 16(5), 1632-1644

• Main Authors: Jury, Christopher P, Whitehead, Robert F, Szmant, A M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2010
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Laboratory experiment; Madracis mirabilis; Not applicable; Single species; Tropical; Date; Identification; Experimental treatment; Carbonate system computation flag; Salinity; Temperature, water; Radiation, photosynthetically active; pH; Alkalinity, total; Carbon dioxide; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; m-cresol purple, Clayton & Byrne 1993; Alkalinity, measured accrding to Yao and Byrne 1998; Aluminium foil method Marsh, 1970; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis EUR-OCEANS; European Project on Ocean Acidification EPOCA; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Clayton; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.729055; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.729055

Physiological data and models of coral calcification indicate that corals utilize a combination of seawater bicarbonate and (mainly) respiratory CO2 for calcification, not seawater carbonate. However, a number of investigators are attributing observed negative effects of experimental seawater acidif...