We conducted a long-term (6 months) multiple driver aquarium experiment under future environmental conditions at St Abbs Marine Station (UK) with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (syn. Desmophyllum pertusum) sampled from Tisler Reef (Skagerrak). The experiment with dead coral skeletons consisted of five different treatments to investigate the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming and deoxygenation on their skeletal dissolution: control (9 °C, pH 8.1, 100 % oxygen), multiple stressor (12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen) and three different pCO2 levels (750, 1000 and 1250 ppm). The coral skeletons were weighed after 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 months using the buoyant weighing technique. Every treatment consisted of three replicate tanks with two dead coral skeletons.

This dataset covers only the first 6 months of the experiment. Updated versions of the related datasets covering the entire 12-month experimental period are published (2025) and available for preferred reuse and are referenced here.