Dataset: recruit_growth_area
Deployment: lab_Edmunds_NMMBA

Coral recruit growth as a function of corallite area change during CO2 experiments
Lead Principal Investigator: 
Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSU-Northridge)
Student: 
Aaron M. Dufault (California State University Northridge, CSU-Northridge)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Danie Kinkade (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Preliminary and in progress
Version: 
2014-03-07
Description

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

Related Datasets:

recruit_seawater_chemistry
recruit_growth_weight
recruit_suvival

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