Seawater carbonate chemistry and physiological data of a multi-driver aquarium experiment with different life stages of the cold-water coral Caryophyllia huinayensis ...

• Main Authors: Beck, Kristina K, Nierste, Jan, Schmidt-Grieb, Gertraud M, Lüdtke, Esther, Naab, Christoph, Held, Christoph, Nehrke, Gernot, Steinhoefel, Grit, Laudien, Jürgen, Richter, Claudio, Wall, Marlene
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: Animalia; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Caryophyllia huinayensis; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mortality/Survival; Other; Other studied parameter or process; Respiration; Single species; South Pacific; Temperate; Temperature; Type of study; Species, unique identification; Species, unique identification URI; Species, unique identification Semantic URI; Duration; Aquarium number; Treatment; Life stage; Feeding type; Identification; Surface area; Dry mass; Respiration rate, oxygen; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Area change; Feeding rate per individual; Organic matter uptake rate; Carbon uptake rate; Number of individuals per category; Survival; Salinity; Temperature, water; Alkalinity, total; pH; 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; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.963764; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.963764

We conducted a six-month aquarium experiment with three life stages of Caryophyllia huinayensis to study their physiological response (survival, somatic growth, calcification and respiration) to the interactive effects of aragonite saturation (0.8 and 2.5), temperature (11 and 15 °C) and food availability (8 and 87 μg C/L). The fully crossed factorial design of this experiment with the three parameters resulted in eight treatments. We measured the calcification and respiration rates as well as the health status of the corals after one, three and six months. The survival rate was deteremined every month, the change in tissue covered surface area was measured between the beginning and end of the experiment and prey capture rates were determined after five months. During the whole experiment, the temperature was measured every 15 minutes with TidbiT temperature loggers and additional water parameters (temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen concentration) were measured daily. We took waters samples (total ... : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2022) 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 2023-10-13. ...