Growth, respiration and photophysiology of coral massive Porites spp. in the experiment of Moorea

• Main Author: Edmunds, Peter J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Biomass; 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); Effective photochemical quantum yield; Excitation pressure; EXP; Experiment; Fluorescence; maximum; French Polynesia; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Irradiance; Laboratory experiment; Maximum photochemical quantum yield of photosystem II; Metabolic expenditure; Moorea; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.820375; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820375

I tested the hypothesis that high pCO2 (76.6 Pa and 87.2 Pa vs. 42.9 Pa) has no effect on the metabolism of juvenile massive Porites spp. after 11 days at 28 °C and 545 µmol quanta/m**2/s. The response was assessed as aerobic dark respiration, skeletal weight (i.e., calcification), biomass, and chlo...