Citation:

PANGAEA.913183

Name: Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification, survival, concentrations of Symbiodiniaceae, chlorophyll a and protein of Caribbean corals
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Calcification/Dissolution; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Field experiment; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory strains; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; Porites astreoides; Porites porites; Siderastrea siderea; Single species; Tropical

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Abstract:

Coral calcification is expected to decline as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration increases. We assessed the potential of Porites astreoides, Siderastrea siderea and Porites porites to survive and calcify under acidified conditions in a 2-year field transplant experiment around low pH, low aragonite saturation (Omega arag) submarine springs. Slow-growing S. siderea had the highest post-transplantation survival and showed increases in concentrations of Symbiodiniaceae, chlorophyll a and protein at the low Omega arag site. Nubbins of P. astreoides had 20% lower survival and higher chlorophyll a concentration at the low Omega arag site. Only 33% of P. porites nubbins survived at low Omega arag and their linear extension and calcification rates were reduced. The density of skeletons deposited after transplantation at the low Omega arag spring was 15–30% lower for all species. These results suggest that corals with slow calcification rates and high Symbiodiniaceae, chlorophyll a and protein concentrations may be less susceptible to ocean acidification, albeit with reduced skeletal density. We postulate that corals in the springs are responding to greater energy demands for overcoming larger differences in carbonate chemistry between the calcifying medium and the external environment. The differential mortality, growth rates and physiological changes may impact future coral species assemblages and the reef framework robustness.

Keyword(s):

Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Calcification/Dissolution; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Field experiment; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory strains; Mortality/Survival; North Atlantic; Porites astreoides; Porites porites; Siderastrea siderea; Single species; Tropical

Supplement to:

Martinez, Ana; Crook, Elizabeth Derse; Barshis, Daniel J; Potts, Donald C; Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario; Hernandez, Laura; Paytan, Adina (2019): Species-specific calcification response of Caribbean corals after 2-year transplantation to a low aragonite saturation submarine spring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 286(1905), 20190572, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0572

Original version:

Martinez, Ana; Crook, Elizabeth Derse; Barshis, Daniel J; Potts, Donald C; Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario; Hernandez, Laura; Paytan, Adina (2019): Data from: Species-specific calcification response of Caribbean corals after two-year transplantation to low aragonite saturation submarine springs. Dryad, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3pm80bp

Further details:

Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Hagens, Mathilde; Hofmann, Andreas; Mueller, Jens-Daniel; Proye, Aurélien; Rae, James; Soetaert, Karline (2019): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.2.12. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=seacarb

Project(s):

Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)

Coverage:

Latitude: 20.879230 * Longitude: -86.860920

Date/Time Start: 2010-08-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2011-10-19T00:00:00

Event(s):

Ojo_Laja * Latitude: 20.879230 * Longitude: -86.860920 * Date/Time Start: 2010-08-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2011-10-19T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Experiment (EXP)

Comment:

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2019) 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). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2020-03-06.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Type	Type		Paytan, Adina		study
2	Species	Species		Paytan, Adina
3	Registration number of species	Reg spec no		Paytan, Adina
4	Uniform resource locator/link to reference	URL ref		Paytan, Adina		WoRMS Aphia ID
5	Identification	ID		Paytan, Adina
6	Site	Site		Paytan, Adina		origin
7	Site	Site		Paytan, Adina		transplant
8	Duration	Duration	month	Paytan, Adina		RTE
9	Proportion of survival	Survival		Paytan, Adina
10	Linear extension	Lin ext	µm	Paytan, Adina
11	Density	Density	g/cm³	Paytan, Adina
12	Volume	Vol	ml	Paytan, Adina		tissue
13	Area	Area	cm²	Paytan, Adina		tissue
14	Chlorophyll a	Chl a	µg/l	Paytan, Adina
15	Cell density	Cells	#/ml	Paytan, Adina		symbiod
16	Proteins	Protein	µg/l	Paytan, Adina
17	Number	n	#	Paytan, Adina
18	Alkalinity, total	AT	µmol/kg	Paytan, Adina
19	Alkalinity, total, standard error	AT std e	±	Paytan, Adina
20	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/kg	Paytan, Adina
21	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard error	DIC std e	±	Paytan, Adina
22	pH	pH		Paytan, Adina		NBS scale
23	pH, standard error	pH std e	±	Paytan, Adina		NBS scale
24	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Paytan, Adina
25	Aragonite saturation state, standard error	Omega Arg std e	±	Paytan, Adina
26	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Paytan, Adina
27	Temperature, water, standard error	T std e	±	Paytan, Adina
28	Salinity	Sal		Paytan, Adina
29	Salinity, standard error	Sal std e	±	Paytan, Adina
30	Carbonate system computation flag	CSC flag		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
31	pH	pH		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)	total scale
32	Carbon dioxide	CO2	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
33	Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	fCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
34	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
35	Bicarbonate ion	[HCO3]-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
36	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/kg	Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
37	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
38	Calcite saturation state	Omega Cal		Yang, Yan	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)

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