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    Variations in coral reef net community calcification and aragonite saturation state on local and global scales

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    2013-09
    Author
    Bernstein, Whitney N.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6219
    Location
    Red Sea
    Puerto Rico
    Florida Keys
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/6219
    Keyword
     Ocean acidification; Chemical oceanography 
    Abstract
    Predicting the response of net community calcification (NCC) to ocean acidification (OA) and declining aragonite saturation state (Ωa) requires a thorough understanding of controls on NCC. The diurnal control of light and net community production (NCP) on NCC confounds the underlying control of Ωa on NCC and must be averaged out in order to predict the general response of NCC to OA. I did this by generating a general NCC-Ωa correlation based on data from 15 field and mesocosm studies around the globe. The general relationship agrees well with results from mesocosm experiments. This general relationship implies that NCC will transition from net calcification to net dissolution at a Ωa of 1.0 ± 0.6 and predicts that NCC will decline by 50% from 1880 to 2100, for a reef of any percent calcifier cover and short reef water residence time. NCC will also decline if percent calcifier cover declines, as evidenced by estimates of NCC in two Caribbean reefs having declined by an estimated 50-90% since 1880. The general NCC-Ωa relationship determined here, along with changes in percent calcifier cover, will be useful in predicting changes in NCC in response to OA and for refining models of reef water Ωa.
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    Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2013
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    Thesis: Bernstein, Whitney N., "Variations in coral reef net community calcification and aragonite saturation state on local and global scales", 2013-09, DOI:10.1575/1912/6219, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6219
     

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