Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Coral energy reserves from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987325 (DOI registration in progress)
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Published: 2025-12-17
Abstract:
We conducted a long-term (12 months) multiple driver aquarium experiment under future environmental conditions at St Abbs Marine Station (UK) with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (syn. Desmophyllum pertusum) sampled from Tisler Reef (Skagerrak). The experiment consisted of four different treatments to investigate the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming, deoxygenation and food limitation on their physiology: 1) control (9 °C, pH 8.1, 100 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), 2) multiple stressor with high feeding (HF; 12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), 3) multiple stressor with low feeding (LF; 12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 50 % food availability) and 4) reduced oxygen (9 °C, pH 8.1, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability). Every treatment consisted of three replicate tanks with four live corals (12 in total). Water parameters (temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen concentration) were measured five times per week in every coral tank. In addition, the energetic reserves (protein, carbohydrate and lipid concentration) of six coral samples per treatment were analysed after 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. The protein, carbohydrate and lipid concentrations were then converted to kilojoules (kJ; protein: 23.9 kJ g-1, carbohydrate: 17.5 kJ g-1, lipid: 39.5 kJ g-1; Gnaiger & Bitterlich, 1984).
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Beck, Kristina K; Hennige, Sebastian; Easton, Blair; Burns, Zoe; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Barnhill, Kelsey Archer; Wolfram, Uwe; Roberts, J Murray (2024): Dissolution rates from a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965098
Beck, Kristina K; Hennige, Sebastian; Easton, Blair; Burns, Zoe; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Barnhill, Kelsey Archer; Wolfram, Uwe; Roberts, J Murray (2024): Mortality rates from a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965083
Beck, Kristina K; Hennige, Sebastian; Easton, Blair; Burns, Zoe; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Barnhill, Kelsey Archer; Wolfram, Uwe; Roberts, J Murray (2024): Physiological parameters from a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965082
Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Carbonate chemistry from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987323
Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Growth, respiration rates and energetic reserves from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987327
Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Skeletal dissolution from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987326
Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Survival rates from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987328
Beck, Kristina K; Roberts, J Murray; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (2025): Water parameters from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.979869
References:
Gnaiger, Erich; Bitterlich, G (1984): Proximate biochemical composition and caloric content calculated from elemental CHN analysis: a stoichiometric concept. Oecologia, 62(3), 289-298, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384259
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Funding:
Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 818123: Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time
Leverhulme Trust, grant/award no. RPG-2020-215: Quantifying rapid cold-water coral habitat loss in a future ocean
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 58.995942 * Median Longitude: 10.964316 * South-bound Latitude: 58.994583 * West-bound Longitude: 10.959650 * North-bound Latitude: 58.997300 * East-bound Longitude: 10.968983
Date/Time Start: 2020-11-10T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-01-25T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: -121.7 m * Maximum Elevation: -102.1 m
Event(s):
Desmophyllum_pertusum_Sampling_Area_and_Period * Latitude Start: 58.997300 * Longitude Start: 10.959650 * Latitude End: 58.994583 * Longitude End: 10.968983 * Date/Time Start: 2020-11-10T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-01-25T00:00:00 * Elevation Start: -102.1 m * Elevation End: -121.7 m * Location: Tisler Reef, Skagerrak * Method/Device: Remote operated vehicle (ROV)
Comment:
This dataset covers the full 12-months experimental period and represents the final version to be used and cited. Previously (2024) published related datasets covering the first 6 months of the experiment are referenced here for completeness.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 3 (ProcLevel3)
Size:
1011 data points