Resistance of corals and coralline algae to ocean acidification: physiological control of calcification under natural pH variability

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Cornwall, C. E., Comeau, S., Decarlo, T. M., Moore, B., d'Alexis, Q., Mcculloch, M. T.
• Other Authors: The University of Western Australia (UWA), Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Shell Island; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03505054; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1168

Ocean acidification is a threat to the continued accretion of coral reefs, though some undergo daily fluctuations in pH exceeding declines predicted by 2100. We test whether exposure to greater pH variability enhances resistance to ocean acidification for the coral Goniopora sp. and coralline alga H...