Living coral tissue slows skeletal dissolution related to ocean acidification
Climate change is causing major changes to marine ecosystems globally, with ocean acidification of particular concern for coral reefs. Using a 200 d in situ carbon dioxide enrichment study on Heron Island, Australia, we simulated future ocean acidification conditions, and found reduced pH led to a d...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:84ce907 2023-05-15T17:49:46+02:00 Living coral tissue slows skeletal dissolution related to ocean acidification Kline, David I. Teneva, Lida Okamoto, Daniel K. Schneider, Kenneth Caldeira, Ken Miard, Thomas Chai, Aaron Marker, Malcolm Dunbar, Robert B. Mitchell, B. Greg Dove, Sophie Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove 2019-09-26 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:84ce907 eng eng Nature Publishing Group doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0988-x issn:2397-334X orcid:0000-0003-1823-8634 orcid:0000-0001-7510-6713 LE0989608 LP0775303 CE0561435 Not set G-1605-55984 G-1802-57451 OCE-0729236 ATM-0941760 Co2 Enrichment Reefs Calcification Impacts Rates 1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 2303 Ecology Journal Article 2019 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0988-x 2020-12-08T07:06:58Z Climate change is causing major changes to marine ecosystems globally, with ocean acidification of particular concern for coral reefs. Using a 200 d in situ carbon dioxide enrichment study on Heron Island, Australia, we simulated future ocean acidification conditions, and found reduced pH led to a drastic decline in net calcification of living corals to no net growth, and accelerated disintegration of dead corals. Net calcification declined more severely than in previous studies due to exposure to the natural community of bioeroding organisms in this in situ study and to a longer experimental duration. Our data suggest that reef flat corals reach net dissolution at an aragonite saturation state (ΩAR) of 2.3 (95% confidence interval: 1.8-2.8) with 100% living coral cover and at ΩAR > 3.5 with 30% living coral cover. This model suggests that areas of the reef with relatively low coral mortality, where living coral cover is high, are likely to be resistant to carbon dioxide-induced reef dissolution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Heron Island ENVELOPE(-112.719,-112.719,58.384,58.384) Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 10 1438 1444 |
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Climate change is causing major changes to marine ecosystems globally, with ocean acidification of particular concern for coral reefs. Using a 200 d in situ carbon dioxide enrichment study on Heron Island, Australia, we simulated future ocean acidification conditions, and found reduced pH led to a drastic decline in net calcification of living corals to no net growth, and accelerated disintegration of dead corals. Net calcification declined more severely than in previous studies due to exposure to the natural community of bioeroding organisms in this in situ study and to a longer experimental duration. Our data suggest that reef flat corals reach net dissolution at an aragonite saturation state (ΩAR) of 2.3 (95% confidence interval: 1.8-2.8) with 100% living coral cover and at ΩAR > 3.5 with 30% living coral cover. This model suggests that areas of the reef with relatively low coral mortality, where living coral cover is high, are likely to be resistant to carbon dioxide-induced reef dissolution. |
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Kline, David I. Teneva, Lida Okamoto, Daniel K. Schneider, Kenneth Caldeira, Ken Miard, Thomas Chai, Aaron Marker, Malcolm Dunbar, Robert B. Mitchell, B. Greg Dove, Sophie Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove |
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Living coral tissue slows skeletal dissolution related to ocean acidification |
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Living coral tissue slows skeletal dissolution related to ocean acidification |
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