{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wall M"],"funding":["Austrian Science Fund FWF"],"pagination":["30688"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4967918"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6"],"pubmed_abstract":["The resilience of tropical corals to ocean acidification depends on their ability to regulate the pH within their calcifying fluid (pHcf). Recent work suggests pHcf homeostasis under short-term exposure to pCO2 conditions predicted for 2100, but it is still unclear if pHcf homeostasis can be maintained throughout a corals lifetime. At CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea, massive Porites corals have grown along a natural seawater pH gradient for decades. This natural gradient, ranging from pH 8.1-7.4, provides an ideal platform to determine corals' pHcf (using boron isotopes). Porites maintained a similar pHcf (~8.24) at both a control (pH 8.1) and seep-influenced site (pH 7.9). Internal pHcf was slightly reduced (8.12) at seawater pH 7.6, and decreased to 7.94 at a site with a seawater pH of 7.4"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pubmed_title":["Internal pH regulation facilitates in situ long-term acclimation of massive corals to end-of-century carbon dioxide conditions."],"pmcid":["PMC4967918"],"funding_grant_id":["J 3667"],"pubmed_authors":["Fabricius KE","Wall M","Schmidt GM","de Beer D","Hofmann LC","Fietzke J","Fink A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Internal pH regulation facilitates in situ long-term acclimation of massive corals to end-of-century carbon dioxide conditions.","description":"The resilience of tropical corals to ocean acidification depends on their ability to regulate the pH within their calcifying fluid (pHcf). Recent work suggests pHcf homeostasis under short-term exposure to pCO2 conditions predicted for 2100, but it is still unclear if pHcf homeostasis can be maintained throughout a corals lifetime. At CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea, massive Porites corals have grown along a natural seawater pH gradient for decades. This natural gradient, ranging from pH 8.1-7.4, provides an ideal platform to determine corals' pHcf (using boron isotopes). Porites maintained a similar pHcf (~8.24) at both a control (pH 8.1) and seep-influenced site (pH 7.9). Internal pHcf was slightly reduced (8.12) at seawater pH 7.6, and decreased to 7.94 at a site with a seawater pH of 7.4","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Aug","modification":"2026-05-05T15:42:01.372Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:19:34Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4967918","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27477963"],"doi":["10.1038/srep30688"]}}