Survival rates from a long-term (12-months) multiple driver aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum

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We conducted a long-term (12 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 consisted of four different treatments to investigate the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming, deoxygenation and food limitation on their physiology: 1) control (9 °C, pH 8.1, 100 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), 2) multiple stressor with high feeding (HF; 12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability), 3) multiple stressor with low feeding (LF; 12 °C, pH 7.7, 90 % oxygen, 50 % food availability) and 4) reduced oxygen (9 °C, pH 8.1, 90 % oxygen, 100 % food availability). Every treatment consisted of three replicate tanks with four live corals (12 in total). Water parameters (temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen concentration) were measured five times per week in every coral tank. The survival rate of coral specimens was determined after 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, 10.5 and 12 months of the experiment.

This dataset covers the full 12-months experimental period and represents the final version to be used and cited. Previously (2024) published related datasets covering the first 6 months of the experiment are referenced here for completeness.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987328
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965098
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Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987323
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Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987326
Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.979869
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.987328
Provenance
Creator Beck, Kristina K ORCID logo; Roberts, J Murray ORCID logo; Burns, Zoe; Easton, Blair; Kaye, Sarah; Peña Fernández, Marta; Wolfram, Uwe; Hennige, Sebastian (ORCID: 0000-0002-3059-604X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 818123 https://doi.org/10.3030/818123 Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time; Leverhulme Trust https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000275 Crossref Funder ID RPG-2020-215 Quantifying rapid cold-water coral habitat loss in a future ocean; Natural Environment Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 Crossref Funder ID NE/S008950/1 https://oneoceanhub.org/ One Ocean Hub
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2304 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.960W, 58.995S, 10.969E, 58.997N); Tisler Reef, Skagerrak
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z