Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998
The carbonate chemistry of seawater is usually not considered to be an important factor influencing calcium-carbonate-precipitation by corals because surface seawater is supersaturated with respect to aragonite. Recent reports, however, suggest that it could play a major role in the evolution and bi...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 2023-05-15T17:51:06+02:00 Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 Gattuso, Jean-Pierre Frankignoulle, Michel Bourge, I Romaine, S Buddemeier, Robert W 1998-06-16 text/tab-separated-values, 510 data points https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Supplement to: Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Frankignoulle, Michel; Bourge, I; Romaine, S; Buddemeier, Robert W (1998): Effect of calcium carbonate saturation of seawater on coral calcification. Global and Planetary Change, 18, 37-46, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00035-6 Acropora sp. Alkalinity total Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key 1975) Animalia Aragonite saturation Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L) Calcification/Dissolution Calcite saturation state Calcium Calculated Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria EPOCA EUR-OCEANS European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis European Project on Ocean Acidification Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gross calcification rate of calcium carbonate Laboratory experiment Not applicable OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) pH Salinity Single species Species Stylophora pistillata Temperature water Dataset 1998 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00035-6 2023-01-20T08:52:21Z The carbonate chemistry of seawater is usually not considered to be an important factor influencing calcium-carbonate-precipitation by corals because surface seawater is supersaturated with respect to aragonite. Recent reports, however, suggest that it could play a major role in the evolution and biogeography of recent corals. We investigated the calcification rates of five colonies of the zooxanthellate coral Stylophora pistillata in synthetic seawater using the alkalinity anomaly technique. Changes in aragonite saturation from 98% to 585% were obtained by manipulating the calcium concentration. The results show a nonlinear increase in calcification rate as a function of aragonite saturation level. Calcification increases nearly 3-fold when aragonite saturation increases from 98% to 390%, i.e., close to the typical present saturation state of tropical seawater. There is no further increase of calcification at saturation values above this threshold. Preliminary data suggest that another coral species, Acropora sp., displays a similar behaviour. These experimental results suggest: (1) that the rate of calcification does not change significantly within the range of saturation levels corresponding to the last glacial-interglacial cycle, and (2) that it may decrease significantly in the future as a result of the decrease in the saturation level due to anthropogenic release of CO2 into the atmosphere. Experimental studies that control environmental conditions and seawater composition provide unique opportunities to unravel the response of corals to global environmental changes. Dataset Ocean acidification PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science |
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Acropora sp. Alkalinity total Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key 1975) Animalia Aragonite saturation Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L) Calcification/Dissolution Calcite saturation state Calcium Calculated Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria EPOCA EUR-OCEANS European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis European Project on Ocean Acidification Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gross calcification rate of calcium carbonate Laboratory experiment Not applicable OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) pH Salinity Single species Species Stylophora pistillata Temperature water |
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Acropora sp. Alkalinity total Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key 1975) Animalia Aragonite saturation Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L) Calcification/Dissolution Calcite saturation state Calcium Calculated Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria EPOCA EUR-OCEANS European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis European Project on Ocean Acidification Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gross calcification rate of calcium carbonate Laboratory experiment Not applicable OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) pH Salinity Single species Species Stylophora pistillata Temperature water Gattuso, Jean-Pierre Frankignoulle, Michel Bourge, I Romaine, S Buddemeier, Robert W Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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Acropora sp. Alkalinity total Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key 1975) Animalia Aragonite saturation Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L) Calcification/Dissolution Calcite saturation state Calcium Calculated Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria EPOCA EUR-OCEANS European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis European Project on Ocean Acidification Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Gross calcification rate of calcium carbonate Laboratory experiment Not applicable OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) pH Salinity Single species Species Stylophora pistillata Temperature water |
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The carbonate chemistry of seawater is usually not considered to be an important factor influencing calcium-carbonate-precipitation by corals because surface seawater is supersaturated with respect to aragonite. Recent reports, however, suggest that it could play a major role in the evolution and biogeography of recent corals. We investigated the calcification rates of five colonies of the zooxanthellate coral Stylophora pistillata in synthetic seawater using the alkalinity anomaly technique. Changes in aragonite saturation from 98% to 585% were obtained by manipulating the calcium concentration. The results show a nonlinear increase in calcification rate as a function of aragonite saturation level. Calcification increases nearly 3-fold when aragonite saturation increases from 98% to 390%, i.e., close to the typical present saturation state of tropical seawater. There is no further increase of calcification at saturation values above this threshold. Preliminary data suggest that another coral species, Acropora sp., displays a similar behaviour. These experimental results suggest: (1) that the rate of calcification does not change significantly within the range of saturation levels corresponding to the last glacial-interglacial cycle, and (2) that it may decrease significantly in the future as a result of the decrease in the saturation level due to anthropogenic release of CO2 into the atmosphere. Experimental studies that control environmental conditions and seawater composition provide unique opportunities to unravel the response of corals to global environmental changes. |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of Stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification rate of colonies of stylophora pistillata, 1998 |
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https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 |
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Ocean acidification |
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Ocean acidification |
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Supplement to: Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Frankignoulle, Michel; Bourge, I; Romaine, S; Buddemeier, Robert W (1998): Effect of calcium carbonate saturation of seawater on coral calcification. Global and Planetary Change, 18, 37-46, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00035-6 |
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https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761768 |
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CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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