pH up-regulation as a potential mechanism for the cold-water coral <i>Lophelia pertusa</i> to sustain growth in aragonite undersaturated conditions

Wall, M.; Ragazzola, F.; Foster, L. C.; Form, A.; Schmidt, D. N.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6869-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6869-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6869-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

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01 Dec 2015

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pH up-regulation as a potential mechanism for the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa to sustain growth in aragonite undersaturated conditions

M. Wall, F. Ragazzola, L. C. Foster, A. Form, and D. N. Schmidt

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RC C2113: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 May 2015
SC C2196: 'Few more comments', Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, 18 May 2015
SC C3214: 'Additional comments', Sebastian Hennige, 29 Jun 2015
RC C3807: 'Review of Wall et al.', Sebastian Hennige, 24 Jul 2015
AC C6236: 'Author Comments', Marlene Wall, 05 Oct 2015

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (23 Oct 2015) by Wolfgang Kiessling

AR by Marlene Wall on behalf of the Authors (02 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Nov 2015) by Wolfgang Kiessling

RR by Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa (19 Nov 2015)

ED: Publish as is (22 Nov 2015) by Wolfgang Kiessling

AR by Marlene Wall on behalf of the Authors (22 Nov 2015)

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We investigated the ability of cold-water corals to deal with changes in ocean pH. We uniquely combined morphological assessment with boron isotope analysis to determine if changes in growth are related to changes in control of calcification pH. We found that the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa can maintain the skeletal morphology, growth patterns as well as internal calcification pH. This has important implications for their future occurrence and explains their cosmopolitan distribution.