Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rates of Porites rus and Hydrolithon onkodes in experiments of Moorea, supplement to: Comeau, Steeve; Carpenter, Robert C; Edmunds, Peter J (2012): Coral reef calcifiers buffer their response to ocean acidification using both bicarbonate and carbonate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 280(1753)

• Main Authors: Comeau, Steeve, Carpenter, Robert C, Edmunds, Peter J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2013
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Hydrolithon onkodes; Laboratory experiment; Macroalgae; Plantae; Porites rus; Rhodophyta; South Pacific; Species interaction; Tropical; Treatment; Species; Irradiance; DATE/TIME; Date/time end; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; pH; pH, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Temperature, water; Temperature, standard deviation; Salinity; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Calculated using seacarb; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Pacific; Rus’; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.821467; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.821467

Central to evaluating the effects of ocean acidification (OA) on coral reefs is understanding how calcification is affected by the dissolution of CO2 in sea water, which causes declines in carbonate ion concentration [CO3]2- and increases in bicarbonate ion concentration [HCO3]-. To address this top...