Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcifying fluid carbonate chemistry, calcification of coral

• Main Authors: Schoepf, Verena, Jury, Christopher P, Toonen, Robert J, McCulloch, Malcolm T
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Acid-base regulation; Alkalinity; total; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Boron/Calcium ratio; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Calcifying fluid; carbonate ion; dissolved inorganic carbon; pH; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Event label; EXP; Experiment; Experiment duration; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Identification; Kaneohe_Bay; Laboratory experiment; Montipora capitata; North Pacific; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Other studied parameter or process; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH change; Porites compressa; Ratio; Registration number of species; Salinity; Single species; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.891559; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.891559

Ocean acidification (OA) is a pressing threat to reef-building corals, but it remains poorly understood how coral calcification is inhibited by OA and whether corals could acclimatize and/or adapt to OA. Using a novel geochemical approach, we reconstructed the carbonate chemistry of the calcifying f...