Seawater carbonate chemistry and plasticity of symbiont acquisition in new recruits of the massive coral Platygyra daedalea ...

• Main Authors: Jiang, Lei, Zhou, Guowei, Zhang, Yuyang, Lei, Xinming, Yuan, Tao, Guo, Ming-Lan, Yuan, Xiangcheng, Lian, Jian-Sheng, Liu, S, Huang, Hui
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mortality/Survival; North Pacific; Other studied parameter or process; Platygyra daedalea; Single species; Temperature; Tropical; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Treatment; Day of experiment; Infection; Survival; Diameter; Salinity; Salinity, standard deviation; Temperature, water; Temperature, water, standard deviation; pH; pH, standard deviation; Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Aragonite saturation state, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Fugacity of carbon dioxide in seawater, standard deviation; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Calcite saturation state; Calcite saturation state, standard deviation; Experiment; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.941568; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.941568

Symbiosis establishment is a milestone in the life cycles of most broadcast-spawning corals; however, it remains largely unknown how initial symbiont infection is affected by ocean warming and acidification, particularly for massive corals. This study investigated the combined effects of elevated temperature (29 vs. 31 °C) and pCO2 (450 vs. 1000 μatm) on the recruits of a widespread massive coral, Platygyra daedalea. Results showed that geometric diameter and symbiosis establishment were unaffected by high pCO2, while elevated temperature significantly reduced successful symbiont infection by 50% and retarded the geometric diameter by 6%. Although neither increased temperature, pCO2, nor their interaction affected survival or algal pigmentation of recruits, there was an inverse relationship between symbiont infection rates and survivorship, especially at high temperatures, possibly as a result of oxidative stress caused by algal symbionts under increased temperature. Intriguingly, the proportion of ... : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2021) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2022-3-1. ...