Dataset: Porites asteroides and Diploria labyrinthiformis calcification

Name: Porites asteroides and Diploria labyrinthiformis calcification from coral colony buoyant weights measured at Hog and Crescent Reef, Bermuda between 2010 and 2012 (BEACON project)
Published: 2018-03-02
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:32.457333 E:-64.797469 S:32.400777 W:-64.834759

Temporal Extent: 2010-08-18 - 2012-09-18

Project:

BErmuda ocean Acidification and COral reef iNvestigation (BEACON)

Program:

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Principal Investigator:

Andreas Andersson (University of California-San Diego Scripps, UCSD-SIO)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Nicholas Bates (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, BIOS)

Contact:

Andreas Andersson (University of California-San Diego Scripps, UCSD-SIO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2018-03-02

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Porites asteroides and Diploria labyrinthiformis calcification from coral colony buoyant weights measured at Hog and Crescent Reef, Bermuda between 2010 and 2012 (BEACON project)

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Description

This dataset contains coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis and Porites asteroides) buoyant weights from coral colonies at Hog and Crescent Reef, Bermuda between 2010 and 2012.

Sampling locations: Bermuda Platform: Hog Reef (32.45733, -64.83476) and Crescent Reef (32.40078, -64.79747).

These data were utilized in the following publication:

Courtney, T. A., Lebrato, M., Bates, N. R., Collins, A., de Putron, S. J., Garley, R., ... & Andersson, A. J. (2017). Environmental controls on modern scleractinian coral and reef-scale calcification. Science advances, 3(11), e1701356. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701356

Methods & Sampling

48 corals of each species (Diploria labyrinthiformis and Porites asteroides) were collected from Hog Reef and Crescent Reef respectively and cemented onto acrylic tiles using Z-spar A-788 epoxy for a total of 96 coral colonies. 12 colonies of each species were deployed at two separate reef sites on Hog Reef and Crescent Reef for a total of 24 colonies of each species at each reef location. Initial weight (Initial Wt) indicates the weight of coral colony and initial weight 1 (In. Wt 1) represents the coral colony weight plus acrylic tile and cement. Each subsequent weight X represents weighing of coral+epoxy+tile on the day of collection listed in the date column. Temperature and salinity were measured at the time of buoyant weighing in the lab so that seawater density could be calculated to calculate the weight of water displaced by the coral colony. Corals were buoyantly weighed following standard protocols on an OHAUS AV 412 balance twice (wt_1 and wt_2). If weights were significantly different, a third weight (wt_3) was measured.

Data Processing Description

All data are the raw un-processed values at the time of measurement.

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
* NaN values changed to nd for "no data"
* Added Site (Cres|Hog),Lat,Lon to be consistent with other datasets. Existing "Site" changed to Site ID (e.g. "Cres 2")

Data Files

File
PoritesDiploria.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 95.70 KB) MD5:fd5586cc3a86af61afdf79453294a7e5 Primary data file for dataset ID 720763

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0928406

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
BIOS_BEACON		2007-06-15	BIOS_Small_Boat	Andreas Andersson (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

scale

Supplied Name: OHAUS AV 412 (Coral weights)

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: scale

Acronym: balance

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB13/

Generic Description:

An instrument used to measure weight or mass.

Water Quality Multiprobe

Supplied Name: YSI 556 Handheld Multiparameter Instrument

Supplied Description:

A YSI 556 Handheld Multiparameter Instrument was used to measure in situ temperature (accuracy ± 0.15°C), and salinity (accuracy ± 1%).

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Water Quality Multiprobe

Generic Description:

An instrument which measures multiple water quality parameters based on the sensor configuration.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Date	Local date of coral weights in format dd/MM/YYYY (AST and ADT)	unitless	date
Wt_label	Identifier for weight period	unitless	sample_descrip
Site	Site name of coral in situ growth (Hog = Hog Reef, Bermuda or Cres = Crescent Reef, Bermuda)	unitless	site
Lat	Latitude of site	decimal degrees	lat
Lon	Longitude of site	decimal degrees	lon
Site_ID	Site identifier of coral in situ growth	unitless	site
Species	Coral species (Porites=Porites asteroides,Diploria=Diploria labyrinthiformis)	unitless	species
Coral_ID	Identifier for each coral	unitless	sample
Tag_ID	ID tag for each coral	unitless	sample
Salinity	Salinity of seawater used for buoyant weight	parts per thousand (ppt)	sal
Temp	Temperature of seawater used for buoyant weight	degrees Celsius	temp
wt_1	Buoyant weight of coral 1	grams (g)	calcification
wt_2	Buoyant weight of coral 2	grams (g)	calcification
wt_3	Buoyant weight of coral 2	grams (g)	calcification

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