Effects of Ocean Acidification on calcification and biochemical balance of the Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum

• Main Authors: Bramanti, Lorenzo, Movilla, Juancho, Guron, Maricel, Calvo, Eva, Gori, Andrea, Dominguez-Cariò, Carlos, Grinyó, Jordi, Lopez-Sanz, Angel, Martinez-Quintana, Angela, Pelejero, Carles, Ziveri, Patrizia, Rossi, Sergio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Cap-de-Creus; EXP; Experiment; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate; MedSeA; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.819362; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819362

We evaluated the effects of low pH on Corallium rubrum from aquaria experiments. Several colonies of C. rubrum were long-term maintained for 314 days in aquaria at two different pH levels (8.10 and 7.81, pHT). Calcification rate, spicule morphology, major biochemical constituents (protein, carbohydr...