Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification
Evaluating the factors responsible for differing species-specific sensitivities to declining seawater pH is central to understanding the mechanisms via which ocean acidification (OA) affects coral calcification. We report here the results of an experiment comparing the responses of the coral Acropor...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 2024-09-15T18:28:03+00:00 Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification Comeau, Steeve Cornwall, Christopher Edward McCulloch, Malcolm T 2017 text/tab-separated-values, 2201 data points https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 en eng PANGAEA Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Proye, Aurélien; Soetaert, Karline; Rae, James (2016): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Supplement to: Comeau, Steeve; Cornwall, Christopher Edward; McCulloch, Malcolm T (2017): Decoupling between the response of coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification to ocean acidification. Scientific Reports, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08003-z Acid-base regulation Acropora yongei Alkalinity total standard error Animalia Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition Boron/Calcium ratio Calcification/Dissolution Calcification rate of calcium carbonate Calcifying fluid dissolved inorganic carbon pH Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria Coast and continental shelf Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2) Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Indian Ocean Laboratory experiment OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Pocillopora damicornis dataset 2017 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.89249710.1038/s41598-017-08003-z 2024-07-24T02:31:34Z Evaluating the factors responsible for differing species-specific sensitivities to declining seawater pH is central to understanding the mechanisms via which ocean acidification (OA) affects coral calcification. We report here the results of an experiment comparing the responses of the coral Acropora yongei and Pocillopora damicornis to differing pH levels (8.09, 7.81, and 7.63) over an 8-week period. Calcification of A. youngei was reduced by 35% at pH 7.63, while calcification of P. damicornis was unaffected. The pH in the calcifying fluid (pHcf) was determined using delta 11B systematics, and for both species pHcf declined slightly with seawater pH, with the decrease being more pronounced in P. damicornis. The dissolved inorganic carbon concentration at the site of calcification (DICcf) was estimated using geochemical proxies (B/Ca and delta 11B) and found to be double that of seawater DIC, and increased in both species as seawater pH decreased. As a consequence, the decline of the saturation state at the site of calcification (Ωcf) with OA was partially moderated by the DICcf increase. These results highlight that while pHcf, DICcf and Ωcf are important in the mineralization process, some corals are able to maintain their calcification rates despite shifts in their calcifying fluid carbonate chemistry. Dataset Ocean acidification PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science |
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Acid-base regulation Acropora yongei Alkalinity total standard error Animalia Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition Boron/Calcium ratio Calcification/Dissolution Calcification rate of calcium carbonate Calcifying fluid dissolved inorganic carbon pH Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria Coast and continental shelf Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2) Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Indian Ocean Laboratory experiment OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Pocillopora damicornis |
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Acid-base regulation Acropora yongei Alkalinity total standard error Animalia Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition Boron/Calcium ratio Calcification/Dissolution Calcification rate of calcium carbonate Calcifying fluid dissolved inorganic carbon pH Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria Coast and continental shelf Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2) Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Indian Ocean Laboratory experiment OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Pocillopora damicornis Comeau, Steeve Cornwall, Christopher Edward McCulloch, Malcolm T Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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Acid-base regulation Acropora yongei Alkalinity total standard error Animalia Aragonite saturation state Benthic animals Benthos Bicarbonate ion Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition Boron/Calcium ratio Calcification/Dissolution Calcification rate of calcium carbonate Calcifying fluid dissolved inorganic carbon pH Calcite saturation state Calculated using seacarb Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010) Carbon inorganic dissolved Carbonate ion Carbonate system computation flag Carbon dioxide Cnidaria Coast and continental shelf Containers and aquaria (20-1000 L or < 1 m**2) Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Indian Ocean Laboratory experiment OA-ICC Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air) Pocillopora damicornis |
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Evaluating the factors responsible for differing species-specific sensitivities to declining seawater pH is central to understanding the mechanisms via which ocean acidification (OA) affects coral calcification. We report here the results of an experiment comparing the responses of the coral Acropora yongei and Pocillopora damicornis to differing pH levels (8.09, 7.81, and 7.63) over an 8-week period. Calcification of A. youngei was reduced by 35% at pH 7.63, while calcification of P. damicornis was unaffected. The pH in the calcifying fluid (pHcf) was determined using delta 11B systematics, and for both species pHcf declined slightly with seawater pH, with the decrease being more pronounced in P. damicornis. The dissolved inorganic carbon concentration at the site of calcification (DICcf) was estimated using geochemical proxies (B/Ca and delta 11B) and found to be double that of seawater DIC, and increased in both species as seawater pH decreased. As a consequence, the decline of the saturation state at the site of calcification (Ωcf) with OA was partially moderated by the DICcf increase. These results highlight that while pHcf, DICcf and Ωcf are important in the mineralization process, some corals are able to maintain their calcification rates despite shifts in their calcifying fluid carbonate chemistry. |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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Seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification |
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seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcifying fluid ph and calcification |
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Ocean acidification |
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Ocean acidification |
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Supplement to: Comeau, Steeve; Cornwall, Christopher Edward; McCulloch, Malcolm T (2017): Decoupling between the response of coral calcifying fluid pH and calcification to ocean acidification. Scientific Reports, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08003-z |
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Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Proye, Aurélien; Soetaert, Karline; Rae, James (2016): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892497 |
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CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.89249710.1038/s41598-017-08003-z |
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