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Coral responses to ocean warming and acidification: Implications for future distribution of coral reefs in the South China Sea
- Source :
- Marine Pollution Bulletin. 138:241-248
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- The annual sea surface temperature increased at a rate of 0.038 to 0.074 °C/year in recent decade, and pH decreased at a rate of 0.012–0.014/year in two coastal waters of the South China Sea. Therefore, a culture experiment was conducted to study the effects of acidification and warming on coral calcification rates. The calcification of three coral species were significantly reduced during the exposure to elevated CO2, while other three coral species were not significantly affected. The reef coral Pocillopora damicornis was resistant to high CO2, but was not able to survive during the exposure to 33 °C in our culture experiments. Our findings suggested that some corals might not survive in tropical areas if coral could not adapt to warming rapidly, and subtropical coastal waters with temperature of
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
China
Oceans and Seas
Coral
Effects of global warming on oceans
Distribution (economics)
Subtropics
Pocillopora damicornis
010501 environmental sciences
Aquatic Science
Oceanography
Global Warming
01 natural sciences
Animals
Seawater
Reef
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Tropical Climate
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Coral Reefs
business.industry
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
fungi
Temperature
technology, industry, and agriculture
Coral reef
Carbon Dioxide
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
Anthozoa
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Sea surface temperature
population characteristics
Environmental science
business
geographic locations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0025326X
- Volume :
- 138
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1afa1d105c6521a9ae66e642e64332b6