Seawater carbonate chemistry and growth rates for coral fragments from the species Porites compressa and Montipora capitata

• Main Authors: Barnhill, Kelsey Archer, Jogee, Nadia, Brown, Colleen, McGowan, Ashley, Rodgers, Ku'ulei, Bryceson, Ian, Bahr, Keisha
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Accretion rate; Alkalinity; total; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Biological sample; BIOS; Calcification/Dissolution; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Colony number/ID; Coral; Event label; Field experiment; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Hawaii islands; Identification; KaneoheBay_1; KaneoheBay_2; LATITUDE; Linear extension; LONGITUDE; Montipora capitata; North Pacific; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Porites compressa; Potentiometric titration; Registration number of species; Salinity; Single species; Site; Species; Spectrophotometric; Temperature; water; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.930559; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930559

Coral reefs are susceptible to climate change, anthropogenic influence, and environmental stressors. However, corals in Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaiʻi have repeatedly shown resilience and acclimatization to anthropogenically-induced rising temperatures and increased frequencies of bleaching events. Variation...