Tynan, Sarah; Opdyke, Bradley N (2011): Seawater carbonate chemistry and community calcification near Lizar Island, 2011 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763348, Supplement to: Tynan, S; Opdyke, BN (2011): Effects of lower surface ocean pH upon the stability of shallow water carbonate sediments. Science of the Total Environment, 409(6), 1082-1086, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.12.007
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Published: 2011-07-21 • DOI registered: 2011-08-18
Abstract:
It is predicted that surface ocean pH will reach 7.9, possibly 7.8 by the end of this century due to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and in the surface ocean. While aragonite-rich sediments don't begin to dissolve until a threshold pH of ~ 7.8 is reached, dissolution from high-Mg calcites is evident with any drop in pH. Indeed, it is high-Mg calcite that dominates the reaction of carbonate sediments with increased CO2, which undergoes a rapid neomorphism process to a more stable, low-Mg calcite. This has major implications for the future of the high-Mg calcite producing organisms within coral reef ecosystems. In order to understand any potential buffering system offered by the dissolution of carbonate sediments under a lower oceanic pH, this process of high-Mg calcite dissolution in the reef environment must be further elucidated.
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Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), grant/award no. 511106: European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI).
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