Effects of elevated pCO2 on the post-settlement development of Pocillopora damicornis

• Main Authors: Jiang, Lei, Huang, Hui, Yuan, Xiangcheng, Yuan, Tao, Zhang, Yuyang, Wen, Colin Kuo-Chang, Li, Xiubao, Zhou, Guowei
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard error; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Area; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); 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; Electron transport rate; relative; EXP; Experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Growth rate; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860871; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.860871

Ocean acidification represents a key threat to the recruitment of scleractinian corals. Here, we investigated the effect of increased partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) on the early development of Pocillopora damicornis by rearing the recruits for 12 days at 3 pCO2 levels (446, 896 and 1681 µ...