Ocean acidification effects on in situ coral reef metabolism.

ABSTRACT: The Anthropocene climate has largely been defined by a rapid increase in atmospheric CO_2, causing global climate change (warming) and ocean acidification (OA, a reduction in oceanic pH). OA is of particular concern for coral reefs, as the associated reduction in carbonate ion availability impairs biogenic calcification and promotes dissolution of carbonate substrata. While these trends ultimately affect ecosystem calcification, scaling experimental analyses of the response of organisms to OA to consider the response of ecosystems to OA has proved difficult. The benchmark of ecosystem-level experiments to study the effects of OA is provided through Free Ocean CO₂ Enrichment (FOCE), which we use in the present analyses for a 21-d experiment on the back reef of Mo'orea,

SUBMITTER: Doo SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700128 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature