Dataset: Raw coral extension, density, and calcification data from Castillo lab research in Belize, 2009, 2012, and 2015

ValidatedRelease Date:2019-02-11Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734491.1Version 1 (2018-04-16)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Karl D. Castillo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Student, Contact: Justin Baumann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Investigating the influence of thermal history on coral growth response to recent and predicted end-of-century ocean warming across a cascade of ecological scales (Thermal History and Coral Growth)


Abstract

This dataset contains raw extension, density, and calcification data from corals sampled by the Castillo lab in Belize in 2009, 2012, and 2015.

This dataset contains raw extension, density, and calcification data from corals sampled by the Castillo lab in Belize in 2009, 2012, and 2015. These data are presented in Baumann et al (2019).


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Results

Baumann, J. H., Ries, J. B., Rippe, J. P., Courtney, T. A., Aichelman, H. E., Westfield, I., & Castillo, K. D. (2019). Nearshore coral growth declining on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. Global Change Biology, 25(11), 3932–3945. doi:10.1111/gcb.14784
Methods

Cantin, N. E., Cohen, A. L., Karnauskas, K. B., Tarrant, A. M., & McCorkle, D. C. (2010). Ocean Warming Slows Coral Growth in the Central Red Sea. Science, 329(5989), 322–325. doi:10.1126/science.1190182
Methods

Carilli, J., Donner, S. D., & Hartmann, A. C. (2012). Historical Temperature Variability Affects Coral Response to Heat Stress. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e34418. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034418
Methods

Castillo, K. D., Ries, J. B., & Weiss, J. M. (2011). Declining Coral Skeletal Extension for Forereef Colonies of Siderastrea siderea on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Southern Belize. PLoS ONE, 6(2), e14615. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014615
Methods

DeCarlo, T. M., Cohen, A. L., Barkley, H. C., Cobban, Q., Young, C., Shamberger, K. E., Brainard R.E., Golbuu, Y. (2015). Coral macrobioerosion is accelerated by ocean acidification and nutrients. Geology, 43(1), 7–10. doi:10.1130/g36147.1