Dataset: Calcification rates of Acropora pulchra in ambient and elevated temperature and pCO2 conditions sampled during experiments at Richard B Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia from Oct to Nov of 2015

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.684594.1Version 1 (2017-03-20)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge)

Co-Principal Investigator: Robert Carpenter (California State University Northridge)

Technician: Griffin Srednick (California State University Northridge)

Technician: Megan Vaughan (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Program: Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment (SEES): Ocean Acidification (formerly CRI-OA) (SEES-OA)

Project: Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)

Project: Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Scale Dependence and Adaptive Capacity (OA coral adaptation)


Abstract

This dataset includes calcification rates of the coral Acropora pulchra during two 21-day experimental treatments from October to November of 2015 conducted at the Richard B Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia. The first 21-day treatment was conducted using approximated ambient conditions, and the second "high" treatment conditions had elevated temperature and pCO2 levels.

These data were published in Shaw et al. 2016.

Related datasets also utilized in Shaw et al. 2016:
Acropora pulchra calcification experiment 1
Acropora pulchra calcification experiment: carbonate chemistry (these measurements were taken during experiments 1 and 2)


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Results

Shaw, E. C., Carpenter, R. C., Lantz, C. A., & Edmunds, P. J. (2016). Intraspecific variability in the response to ocean warming and acidification in the scleractinian coral Acropora pulchra. Marine Biology, 163(10). doi:10.1007/s00227-016-2986-8
Methods

Stimson, J., & Kinzie, R. A. (1991). The temporal pattern and rate of release of zooxanthellae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus) under nitrogen-enrichment and control conditions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 153(1), 63–74. doi:10.1016/s0022-0981(05)80006-1
Related Research

Comeau, S., Carpenter, R. C., Lantz, C. A., & Edmunds, P. J. (2016). Parameterization of the response of calcification to temperature and pCO2 in the coral Acropora pulchra and the alga Lithophyllum kotschyanum. Coral Reefs, 35(3), 929–939. doi:10.1007/s00338-016-1425-0