Permeable Coral Reef Sediment Dissolution Driven by Elevated pCO2 and Pore Water Advection

• Main Authors: Cyronak, Tyler, Santos, Isaac R., Eyre, Bradley D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2013
• Subjects: Ocean acidification; Dissolution; Coral reef; Calcium carbonate; CaCO3 sediment; Advection; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Heron Island
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1039; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2030&context=occ_facarticles

Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to drive the transition of coral reef ecosystems from net calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitating to net dissolving within the next century. Although permeable sediments represent the largest reservoir of CaCO3 in coral reefs, the dissolution of shallow CaCO3 san...