Ross, Claire Louise; Schoepf, Verena; DeCarlo, Thomas M; McCulloch, Malcolm T (2018): Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification in the temperate coral Turbinaria reniformis [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924614
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Abstract:
High-latitude coral reefs provide natural laboratories for investigating the mechanisms and limits of coral calcification. While the calcification processes of tropical corals have been studied intensively, little is known about how their temperate counterparts grow under much lower temperature and light conditions. Here, we report the results of a long-term (2-year) study of seasonal changes in calcification rates, photo-physiology and calcifying fluid (cf) chemistry (using boron isotope systematics and Raman spectroscopy) for the coral Turbinaria reniformis growing near its latitudinal limits (34.5° S) along the southern coast of Western Australia. In contrast with tropical corals, calcification rates were found to be threefold higher during winter (16 to 17° C) compared with summer (approx. 21° C), and negatively correlated with light, but lacking any correlation with temperature. These unexpected findings are attributed to a combination of higher chlorophyll a, and hence increased heterotrophy during winter compared with summer, together with the corals' ability to seasonally modulate pHcf, with carbonate ion concentration [CO32-]cf being the main controller of calcification rates. Conversely, calcium ion concentration [Ca2+]cf declined with increasing calcification rates, resulting in aragonite saturation states Ωcf that were stable yet elevated fourfold above seawater values. Our results show that corals growing near their latitudinal limits exert strong physiological control over their cf in order to maintain year-round calcification rates that are insensitive to the unfavourable temperature regimes typical of high-latitude reefs.
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Ross, Claire Louise; Schoepf, Verena; DeCarlo, Thomas M; McCulloch, Malcolm T (2018): Mechanisms and seasonal drivers of calcification in the temperate coral Turbinaria reniformis at its latitudinal limits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285(1879), 20180215, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0215
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Ross, Claire Louise; Schoepf, Verena; DeCarlo, Thomas M; McCulloch, Malcolm T (2018): Mechanisms And Seasonal Drivers Of Calcification In The Temperate Coral Turbinaria Reniformis At Its Latitudinal Limits. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1220102
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Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James; Gentili, Bernard; Hagens, Mathilde; Hofmann, Andreas; Mueller, Jens-Daniel; Proye, Aurélien; Rae, James; Soetaert, Karline (2020): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.2.14. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=seacarb
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Latitude: -34.400000 * Longitude: 119.400000
Date/Time Start: 2015-01-26T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2016-10-06T00:00:00
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2020) 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 2020-11-11.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
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583 data points