Antagonistic Effects of Ocean Acidification and Rising Sea Surface Temperature on the Dissolution of Coral Reef Carbonate Sediments

• Main Authors: Trnovsky, Daniel, Stoltenberg, Laura, Cyronak, Tyler, Eyre, Bradley D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2016
• Subjects: Sediment; Calcium carbonate; Dissolution; Ocean acidification; Sea surface temperature; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Heron Island
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1026; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2043&context=occ_facarticles

Increasing atmospheric CO2 is raising sea surface temperature (SST) and increasing seawater CO2 concentrations, resulting in a lower oceanic pH (ocean acidification; OA), which is expected to reduce the accretion of coral reef ecosystems. Although sediments comprise most of the calcium carbonate (Ca...