Baseline Assessment of Net Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on U.S. Pacific Reefs

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Vargas-Ángel, Bernardo, Richards, Cristi L., Vroom, Peter S., Price, Nichole N., Schils, Tom, Young, Charles W., Smith, Jennifer, Johnson, Maggie D., Brainard, Russell E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Research Article; Gam; Pacific; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671731/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142196

This paper presents a comprehensive quantitative baseline assessment of in situ net calcium carbonate accretion rates (g CaCO3 cm-2 yr-1) of early successional recruitment communities on Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) plates deployed on coral reefs at 78 discrete sites, across 11 islands in the...