How do changing winter sea surface temperatures (SST) influence high latitude coral calcification rates through the potential interannual tradeoffs between the beneficial effects of warmer SST and enhanced coral nutrition on calcification rates?

• Main Authors: Travis A. Courtney (3110193), Theodor Kindeberg (6063884), Andreas J. Andersson (4746966)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biophysics; Cell Biology; Ecology; Marine Biology; Inorganic Chemistry; Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified; franksi calcification rates; life history strategies; labyrinthiformis calcification rates; Bermudan Diploria labyrinthiformis; nearshore reef site; calcification rates; North Atlantic Oscillation; calcification anomaly; Bermuda reef platform; nearshore reef sites; drive interannual variability; NAO winters; Coral calcification responses; calcification responses; winter NAO index; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241854.g004

The figure is modeled after [ 36 ] and the brain coral illustration (not drawn to scale) is courtesy of the integration and application network, university of Maryland center for environmental science (ian.umces.edu/symbols/).