Seawater carbonate chemistry and carbonate load of seagrass leaves

• Main Authors: Mazarrasa, Inés, Marbà, Núria, Krause-Jensen, Dorte, Kennedy, Hilary, Santos, Rui, Lovelock, Catherine E, Duarte, Carlos Manuel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Alkalinity; total; standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate mass per shoot; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Coast and continental shelf; Dragor_Strand; Event label; EXP; Experiment; Field observation; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Heterozostera tasmanica; Indian Ocean; Kobbefjord; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Mass per shoot; Moreton_Bay_OA; Nefyn; North Atlantic; Number of leaves; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Indian; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.926679; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926679

Seagrass meadows play a significant role in the formation of carbonate sediments, serving as a substrate for carbonate-producing epiphyte communities. The magnitude of the epiphyte load depends on plant structural and physiological parameters, related to the time available for epiphyte colonization....