Dataset: Experimental results of calcification rates of algae at variable pCO2 concentrations from the Richard B Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia in 2011 (MCR LTER project, OA_Corals project)

Preliminary and in progressVersion (2015-03-21)Dataset Type:experimental

Lead Principal Investigator: Steeve Comeau (California State University Northridge)

Co-Principal Investigator: Robert Carpenter (California State University Northridge)

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

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


Program: Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Program: Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment (SEES): Ocean Acidification (formerly CRI-OA) (SEES-OA)

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

Project: RUI: Ocean Acidification- Category 1- The effects of ocean acidification on the organismic biology and community ecology of corals, calcified algae, and coral reefs (OA_Corals)

These data were obtained during an experiment performed in August-September-October 2011 and 2012 in French Polynesia. Calcification rates were measured in 8 algae (Porolithon onkodes, Lithophyllum flavescens, Halimeda macroloba, Halimeda minima, Hydrolithon reinboldii, Lithophyllum kotschyanum, Amphiroa fragilissima, Neogoniolithon frutescens) at 6 pCO2.

Related References:

Comeau, S., Edmunds, P. J., Spindel, N. B., Carpenter, R. C. (2014). Fast coral reef calcifiers are more sensitive to ocean acidification in short-term laboratory incubations. Limnology and Oceanography, 59(3), 1081–1091. doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.3.1081

Comeau, S., Edmunds, P. J., Spindel, N. B., Carpenter, R. C. (2013) The responses of eight coral reef calcifiers to increasing partial pressure of CO2 do not exhibit a tipping point. Limnol. Oceanogr. 58, 388–398.

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