Seawater carbonate chemistry, calcification and survival of coral recruits in a laboratory experiment

• Main Authors: Dufault, Aaron M, Cumbo, Vivian R, Fan, Tung-Yung, Edmunds, Peter J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Growth rate; Identification; Incubation duration; Laboratory experiment; Mortality/Survival; Nanwan_Bay; North Pacific; Number of individuals; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Other; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Polyp number; Replicate; Salinity; Seriatopora caliendrum; Single species; Species; Temperature; water; Treatment; Tropical; Pacific; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.830185; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.830185

Manipulative studies have demonstrated that ocean acidification (OA) is a threat to coral reefs, yet no experiments have employed diurnal variations in pCO2 that are ecologically relevant to many shallow reefs. Two experiments were conducted to test the response of coral recruits (less than 6 days o...