Effect of ocean acidification and pH fluctuations on the growth and development of coralline algal recruits, and an associated benthic algal assemblage, supplement to: Roleda, Michael Y; Cornwall, Christopher Edward; Feng, Yuanyuan; McGraw, Christina M; Smith, Abigail M; Hurd, Catriona L (2015): Effect of ocean acidification and pH fluctuations on the growth and development of coralline algal recruits, and an associated benthic algal assemblage. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0140394

• Main Authors: Roleda, Michael Y, Cornwall, Christopher Edward, Feng, Yuanyuan, McGraw, Christina M, Smith, Abigail M, Hurd, Catriona L
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2015
• Subjects: Arthrocardia corymbosa; Benthos; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria <20 L; Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Macroalgae; Plantae; Rhodophyta; Single species; South Pacific; Temperate; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Treatment; Date; Area; Area, standard error; Growth rate; Growth rate, standard error; Number; Number, standard error; Magnesium carbonate, magnesite; Magnesium carbonate, magnesite, standard error; Chlorophyll a/particulate organic carbon ratio; Chlorophyll a/particulate organic carbon ratio, standard error; Biogenic silica per chlorophyll a; Biogenic silica per chlorophyll a, standard error; Salinity; Temperature, water; pH; pH, standard error; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard error; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Cornwall; Hurd; Pacific; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.859434; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.859434

Coralline algae are susceptible to the changes in the seawater carbonate system associated with ocean acidification (OA). However, the coastal environments in which corallines grow are subject to large daily pH fluctuations which may affect their responses to OA. Here, we followed the growth and dev...