Publication Date:
2024-03-15
Description:
Global environmental changes, including ocean acidification, have been identified as a major threat to scleractinian corals. General predictions are that ocean acidification will be detrimental to reef growth and that 40 to more than 80 per cent of present-day reefs will decline during the next 50 years. Cold-water corals (CWCs) are thought to be strongly affected by changes in ocean acidification owing to their distribution in deep and/or cold waters, which naturally exhibit a CaCO3 saturation state lower than in shallow/warm waters. Calcification was measured in three species of Mediterranean cold-water scleractinian corals (Lophelia pertusa, Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum dianthus) on-board research vessels and soon after collection. Incubations were performed in ambient sea water. The species M. oculata was additionally incubated in sea water reduced or enriched in CO2. At ambient conditions, calcification rates ranged between -0.01 and 0.23% d-1. Calcification rates of M. oculata under variable partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) were the same for ambient and elevated pCO2 (404 and 867 µatm) with 0.06 ± 0.06% d-1, while calcification was 0.12 ± 0.06% d-1 when pCO2 was reduced to its pre-industrial level (285 µatm). This suggests that present-day CWC calcification in the Mediterranean Sea has already drastically declined (by 50%) as a consequence of anthropogenic-induced ocean acidification.
Keywords:
AIRICA analyzer (Miranda); Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Alkalinity anomaly technique (Smith and Key, 1975); Ammonium; Ammonium, standard deviation; Animalia; Aragonite saturation state; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bicarbonate ion; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (〈20 L); Calcification/Dissolution; Calcification rate; Calcification rate, standard deviation; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Cnidaria; Coral polyp; Coral polyp, standard deviation; Deep-sea; Desmophyllum sp.; Desmophyllum sp., dry weight; Desmophyllum sp., dry weight, standard deviation; EPOCA; EUR-OCEANS; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis; European Project on Ocean Acidification; Experiment day; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Identification; Laboratory experiment; Lophelia pertusa; Lophelia pertusa, tissue, dry weight; Lophelia pertusa, tissue, dry weight, standard error; Madrepora oculata; Madrepora oculata, dry weight; Madrepora oculata, dry weight, standard deviation; Measured; Mediterranean Sea; Metrohm Titrando titrator; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); pH; Phosphate; Phosphate, standard deviation; Replicates; Salinity; Single species; Site; Species; Temperate; Temperature, water
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 608 data points
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