Ocean acidification: Implications for reef-building corals
Effect of ocean acidification on reef-building corals: understanding variability and projecting population-level impact
... and implications Understanding the long-term ecosystem level impacts of ocean acidification in marine environments is critical to informing national and international policies on carbon emission ...
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Major cellular and physiological impacts of ocean acidification on a reef building coral
... increase, reef-building corals are under greater stress from both increased sea surface temperatures and declining sea water ...and ocean chemistry consistent with two scenarios put forward by ...
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The effects of ocean acidification on habitat associations of coral reef fishes
... Alterations in homing ability, olfactory discrimination, and behaviour caused by elevated CO 2 suggest possible impairment of general cognitive function. Cardinalfish held in elevated CO 2 were no longer able to ...
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Energetic costs of chronic fish predation on reef-building corals
... important implications for the impact of corallivory on coral communities, their ecological role has not been fully ...on corals subjected to long-term ...
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Ocean acidification
... the implications of carbonate chemistry changes for benthic ...of ocean acidification at relatively low reso- lution, with high emission scenarios; there is need for ad- ditional, high resolution ...
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The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef building corals to thermal stress
... those corals that were not prestressed performing significantly worse, losing over 40% of their symbionts and having a greater reduction in photosynthetic ...of reef-building corals to thermal ...
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Impacts of Ocean Acidification
... reasons, ocean acidification has seri- ous implications for the type of policy interventions required to control climate ...since ocean acidification is exclusively driven by CO 2 , as ...
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Biochemical adaptation to ocean acidification
... (2009). High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period. Paleoceanography 24, PA2218. Lefebvre, S. C., Benner, I., Stillman, J. H., Parker, A. E., Drake, M. K., ...
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Future of the Sea: Ocean Acidification
... 2.2 Implications for Species of Conservation Importance The cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa forms biodiverse and functionally important deep-water reef habitats in the North Atlantic, including Scottish ...
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Spatial competition dynamics between reef corals under ocean acidification
... of corals in the competitive hierarchy under pH con- ditions anticipated in the future; four of six coral species were ranked differently under present-day compared with OA conditions using two different ...
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The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification
... considers corals and zooxanthellae as two separate entities, allowing corals to grow through both autotrophic and heterotrophic means 39 ...of corals and bottom light levels 40 . The calcification and ...
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The effects of ocean acidification and warming on the early life history stages of corals
... I would like to give a special mention to everyone that has helped me with my field and laboratory work, especially Erika Woolsey, Greg Torda, Lotte Huisman, Erin Graham and Peter Cross. Thank you for making the ...
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The effects of ocean acidification and warming on the early life history stages of corals
... I would like to give a special mention to everyone that has helped me with my field and laboratory work, especially Erika Woolsey, Greg Torda, Lotte Huisman, Erin Graham and Peter Cross. Thank you for making the ...
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Ocean acidification accelerates dissolution of experimental coral reef communities
... calcification rate for the communities assembled in our flumes, corals and coralline algae 292. alone exhibited a decrease in net calcification of 29% over 24 h at elevated pCO2 versus [r] ...
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Acclimatization of massive reef-building corals to consecutive heatwaves
... 0000-0003-3269-1320 Reef-building corals typically live close to the upper limits of their thermal tolerance and even small increases in summer water temperatures can lead to bleaching and ...coral ...
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Reef-building corals and coral communities of the Yemen Red Sea
... Indian Ocean, in part relating to the closure of the Tethys Seaway, introduced a new biota from the Indian Ocean to the Red ...as reef-associated species dispersed from the Indian Ocean ...
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Developmental carryover effects of ocean warming and acidification in corals from a potential climate refugium, the Gulf of Aqaba
... in corals are scarce, particularly in the context of climate ...common reef-building coral Stylophora pistillata from the Gulf of Aqaba to seawater conditions likely to occur just beyond the end of ...
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Adaptive strategies in reef-building corals
... Next, in Chapter 3 , I test the ability of adaptive strategy groups to predict the response of coral taxa to disturbance using a long-term dataset from inshore reefs on the Great Barr[r] ...
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Allometric growth in reef building corals
... We found that variation in size dependent growth is best predicted by morphological 285. group rather than species[r] ...
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Transgenerational acclimation and adaptation of reef fishes to ocean acidification
... Concluding remarks The results of this thesis illustrate the need for multi-generational studies to understand the full potential for marine fishes to adjust to rising CO 2 levels in the ocean. Transgenerational ...
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