Nature Communications (May 2017)

Coral calcification in a changing World and the interactive dynamics of pH and DIC upregulation

  • Malcolm T. McCulloch,
  • Juan Pablo D’Olivo,
  • James Falter,
  • Michael Holcomb,
  • Julie A. Trotter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15686
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Coral reefs are biologically diverse and productive ecosystems, yet our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on biocalcification is limited. Here, the authors show that pH upregulation and the biological control of dissolved inorganic carbon in calcifying fluids ofPoritescorals are linked.