Calcification is not the Achilles'heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean, supplement to: Rodolfo-Metalpa, Riccardo; Montagna, Paolo; Aliani, Stefano; Borghini, Mireno; Canese, Simonepietro; Hall-Spencer, Jason M; Foggo, A; Milazzo, Marco; Taviani, Marco; Houlbrèque, Fanny (2015): Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean. Global Change Biology, 21(6), 2238-2248

• Main Authors: Rodolfo-Metalpa, Riccardo, Montagna, Paolo, Aliani, Stefano, Borghini, Mireno, Canese, Simonepietro, Hall-Spencer, Jason M, Foggo, A, Milazzo, Marco, Taviani, Marco, Houlbrèque, Fanny
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2015
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Caryophyllia smithii; Cnidaria; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Deep-sea; Dendrophyllia cornigera; Desmophyllum dianthus; Field experiment; Laboratory experiment; Mediterranean Sea; Respiration; Single species; Temperate; Event label; Species; Figure; Treatment; Identification; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Dissolution rate; Respiration rate, oxygen; Salinity; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard deviation; pH; pH, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, 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 CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Achilles Heel; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.847763; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847763

Ocean acidification is thought to be a major threat to coral reefs: laboratory evidence and CO2 seep research has shown adverse effects on many coral species, although a few are resilient. There are concerns that cold-water corals are even more vulnerable as they live in areas where aragonite satura...