Calcification rate of massive Porites spp. and Porites rus in the experiment of Moorea

• Main Authors: Edmunds, Peter J, Brown, Darren, Moriarty, Vincent
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2); EXP; Experiment; French Polynesia; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Laboratory experiment; Moorea; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Porites rus; Porites sp.; Potentiometric titration; Salinity; Sample code/label; Sample ID; Single species; South Pacific; Species; Spectrophotometric; Surface area; Temperature; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.820312; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820312

This study tested the hypothesis that the response of corals to temperature and pCO2 is consistent between taxa. Juvenile massive Porites spp. and branches of P. rus from the back reef of Moorea were incubated for 1 month under combinations of temperature (29.3 °C and 25.6 °C) and pCO2 (41.6 Pa and...