Dataset: Growth metrics of Pocillopora verrucosa and Acropora hyacinthus corals under two pCO2 treatments at Moorea, French Polynesia from May to June of 2014 (OA coral adaptation project)

Final no updates expectedVersion 1 (2017-03-17)Dataset Type:experimental

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

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

Technician: Griffin Srednick (California State University Northridge)

Technician: Megan Vaughan (California State University Northridge)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (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: Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Scale Dependence and Adaptive Capacity (OA coral adaptation)


Abstract

These data include net calcification rates and measures of horizontal and vertical colony growth of coral species Pocillopora verrucosa and Acropora hyacinthus from an experiment performed in Moorea from May to June of 2014.

These data were utilized in Evensen & Edmunds, 2016.

Other datasets utilized in Evensen and Edmunds, 2016:
* Field data - coral colony interactions - https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/68452
* seawater chemistry - https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/684541


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Results

Evensen, N. R., & Edmunds, P. J. (2016). Interactive effects of ocean acidification and neighboring corals on the growth of Pocillopora verrucosa. Marine Biology, 163(7). doi:10.1007/s00227-016-2921-z
Methods

Stimson, J., & Kinzie, R. A. (1991). The temporal pattern and rate of release of zooxanthellae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus) under nitrogen-enrichment and control conditions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 153(1), 63–74. doi:10.1016/s0022-0981(05)80006-1
Related Research

Comeau, S., Carpenter, R. C., Lantz, C. A., & Edmunds, P. J. (2016). Parameterization of the response of calcification to temperature and pCO2 in the coral Acropora pulchra and the alga Lithophyllum kotschyanum. Coral Reefs, 35(3), 929–939. doi:10.1007/s00338-016-1425-0