A microelectrode study of coral calcification: how ocean acidification affects ion concentrations inside coral polyps

• Main Author: Ma, Yuening
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Delaware 2015
• Subjects: Microelectrodes; Corals; Calcification; Corals > Effect of light on; Hydrogen-ion concentration; Carbon; Carbonates; Hoegh; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17649

Coral reefs are a critical building block of the ocean ecosystem, whose health is threatened by ocean acidification (OA) and warming due to increased atmospheric CO2 (Hoegh-Guldberg, 2010; IPCC, 2014). Reliably predicting how coral calcification may respond to OA depends on our understanding of thei...