Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean.

Abstract:

:Ocean acidification is thought to be a major threat to coral reefs: laboratory evidence and CO2 seep research has shown adverse effects on many coral species, although a few are resilient. There are concerns that cold-water corals are even more vulnerable as they live in areas where aragonite saturation (Ωara ) is lower than in the tropics and is falling rapidly due to CO2 emissions. Here, we provide laboratory evidence that net (gross calcification minus dissolution) and gross calcification rates of three common cold-water corals, Caryophyllia smithii, Dendrophyllia cornigera, and Desmophyllum dianthus, are not affected by pCO2 levels expected for 2100 (pCO2  1058 μatm, Ωara 1.29), and nor are the rates of skeletal dissolution in D. dianthus. We transplanted D. dianthus to 350 m depth (pHT 8.02; pCO2  448 μatm, Ωara 2.58) and to a 3 m depth CO2 seep in oligotrophic waters (pHT 7.35; pCO2  2879 μatm, Ωara 0.76) and found that the transplants calcified at the same rates regardless of the pCO2 confirming their resilience to acidification, but at significantly lower rates than corals that were fed in aquaria. Our combination of field and laboratory evidence suggests that ocean acidification will not disrupt cold-water coral calcification although falling aragonite levels may affect other organismal physiological and/or reef community processes.

journal_name

Glob Chang Biol

journal_title

Global change biology

authors

Rodolfo-Metalpa R,Montagna P,Aliani S,Borghini M,Canese S,Hall-Spencer JM,Foggo A,Milazzo M,Taviani M,Houlbrèque F

doi

10.1111/gcb.12867

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-06-01 00:00:00

pages

2238-48

issue

6

eissn

1354-1013

issn

1365-2486

journal_volume

21

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