Hidden impacts of ocean acidification to live and dead coral framework

• Main Authors: Hennige, Sebastian J, Wicks, L C, Kamenos, N A, Perna, G, Findlay, Helen S, Roberts, J Murray
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard deviation; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Area; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Breaking load; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using CO2calc; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Diameter; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Full width at half maximum; Group; Growth/Morphology; Height; Height/width ratio; Identification; Incubation duration; Laboratory experiment; Lophelia pertusa; Mingulayreef; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Other studied parameter or process; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860558; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.860558

Cold-water corals, such as Lophelia pertusa, are key habitat-forming organisms found throughout the world's oceans to 3000 m deep. The complex three-dimensional framework made by these vulnerable marine ecosystems support high biodiversity and commercially important species. Given their importa...