Dataset: Experimental results of coral recruit survivorship in variable CO2 collected from the Natl Museum Mar. Bio. and Aquar., Taiwan in 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)

Preliminary and in progressVersion (2014-03-20)Dataset Type:Unknown

Lead Principal Investigator: Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge)

Student: Aaron M. Dufault (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Danie Kinkade (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Project: Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)

Project: The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change (Climate_Coral_Larvae)

Manipulative studies have demonstrated that ocean acidification (OA) is a threat to coral reefs, yet no experiments have employed diurnal variations in pCO2 that are ecologically relevant to many shallow reefs. Two experiments were conducted to test the response of coral recruits (less than 6 days old) to diurnally oscillating pCO2; one exposing recruits for 3 days to ambient (440 uatm), high (663 uatm) and diurnally oscillating pCO2 on a natural phase (420–596 uatm), and another exposing recruits for 6 days to ambient (456 uatm), high (837 uatm) and diurnally oscillating pCO2 on either a natural or a reverse phase (448–845 uatm).

These data are published in Dufault et al. (2012), Proc. R. Soc. B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2545

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Results

Dufault, A. M., Cumbo, V. R., Fan, T.-Y., & Edmunds, P. J. (2012). Effects of diurnally oscillating pCO2 on the calcification and survival of coral recruits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1740), 2951–2958. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2545