The influence of seawater pH on U/ Ca ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

• Main Authors: Raddatz, Jacek, Rüggeberg, Andres, Flögel, Sascha, Hathorne, Ed C, Liebetrau, Volker, Eisenhauer, Anton, Dullo, Wolf-Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Deep-sea; DEPTH; water; Field observation; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); LATITUDE; Location; LONGITUDE; Lophelia pertusa; Mediterranean Sea; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Polar; Salinity; Single species; Species; Temperate; Temperature; Uranium/Calcium ratio; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.834573; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.834573

The increasing pCO2 in seawater is a serious threat for marine calcifiers and alters the biogeochemistry of the ocean. Therefore, the reconstruction of past-seawater properties and their impact on marine ecosystems is an important way to investigate the underlying mechanisms and to better constrain...