Dataset: coral skeletal growth

Name: Coral extension, density, calcification, and bioerosion from corals collected at Palau from small boats from 2011-2013
Published: 2015-06-25
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:7.438 E:134.549 S:7.16 W:134.352

Project:

Constraining Thermal Thresholds and Projections of Temperature Stress on Pacific Coral Reefs Over the 21st Century: Method Refinement and Application (Thermal Thresholds and Projections)

Toward Predicting the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Net Calcification by a Broad Range of Coral Reef Ecosystems: Identifying Patterns and Underlying Causes (Coral Reef Ecosystem OA Impact)

Program:

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

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Principal Investigator:

Anne L. Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Kristopher Karnauskas (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Contact:

Hannah Barkley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

25 June 2015

Version Date:

2015-06-25

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Coral extension, density, calcification, and bioerosion from corals collected at Palau from small boats from 2011-2013

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Description

Porites and Favia coral extension, density, calcification, and bioerosion from corals collected at 8 sites Palau.

Primary reference:
Barkley, H.C., A.L. Cohen, Y. Golbuu, V.R. Starczak, T.M. DeCarlo, K.E.F. Shamberger. 2015. Changes in coral reef communities across a natural gradient in seawater pH. Science Advances, 1, e1500328. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500328

Other related references:
DeCarlo, T.M., A.L. Cohen, H.C. Barkley, Q. Cobban, C. Young, C., K.E.F. Shamberger, R.E. Brainard, Y. Golbuu. 2015. Coral macrobioerosion is accelerated by ocean acidification and nutrients. Geology, 43, 7-10. doi:10.1130/G36147.1

Shamberger, K.E.F., A.L. Cohen, Y. Golbuu, D.C. McCorkle, S.J. Lentz, H.C. Barkley. 2014. Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western Pacific Reef. Geophysical Research Letters, 41. DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058489.

Methods & Sampling

Coral skeletal cores were collected at eight sites from massive Porites and Favia corals at 1-5m depth using underwater pneumatic drills. Core holes were plugged with cement and sealed with marine epoxy, and corals were able to fully grow over the plugs within a year. The skeletal cores were oven dried and CT (computerized tomography) scanned at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Data Processing Description

Coral cores were scanned using a Siemens Volume Zoom Helical Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanner, and extension, density, and calcification rates were calculated using annual banding patterns visualized from 3-D CT images in MATLAB (detailed procedure for analyzing coral growth rates in DeCarlo et al. (2015)). The 2006-2010 averages of these parameters for each coral were used to compare growth rates across reef sites. CT scan images were used to determine the proportion of the skeleton eroded (>1mm boring diameter) by boring organisms (including bivalves, worms, and sponges), calculated as the total volume of CaCO3 removed relative to the total volume of the coral core, for each Porites coral.

Data Files

File
coral_skeletal_growth.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 1022 bytes) MD5:76e24b074538193cfd25d7dc2ba0ad7b Primary data file for dataset ID 561046

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1220529
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1031971

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Palau_reefs_2011-13		2011-09-19	PICRC Small Boats	Anne L. Cohen (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site_name	Sampling site name.	dimensionless	site
lat	Latitude of sampling location. North = positive values.	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude of sampling location. East = positive values.	decimal degrees	lon
omega_Ar	Saturation state of seawater with respect to aragonite.	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
omega_Ar_err	Standard error of omega_Ar.	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
porites_ext	Average Porites extension rate.	centimeters per year (cm/yr)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_ext_err	Standard error of Porites extension rate.	centimeters per year (cm/yr)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_dens	Average Porites density.	grams per cubic centimeter (g cm-3)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_dens_err	Standard error of Porites density.	grams per cubic centimeter (g cm-3)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_calc	Average Porites calcification.	grams per square centimeter per year (g cm-2 yr-1)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_calc_err	Standard error of Porites calcification.	grams per square centimeter per year (g cm-2 yr-1)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_ext	Average Favia extension rate.	centimeters per year (cm/yr)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_ext_err	Standard error of Favia extension rate.	centimeters per year (cm/yr)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_dens	Average Favia density.	grams per cubic centimeter (g cm-3)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_dens_err	Standard error of Favia density	grams per cubic centimeter (g cm-3)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_calc	Average Favia calcification rate.	grams per square centimeter per year (g cm-2 yr-1)	no_bcodmo_term
favia_calc_err	Standard error of Favia calcification rate.	grams per square centimeter per year (g cm-2 yr-1)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_boring_vol	Average Porites percent volume bioeroded.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_boring_vol_err	Standard error of Porites percent volume bioeroded.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term

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