National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed across the Marianas Archipelago from 2011 to 2022

Description

The calcification rate data described here are from calcification accretion units (CAUs) that have been retrieved (and replaced) at existing, long-term monitoring sites during the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) led NCRMP missions around the Mariana Archipelago in 2014, 2017, and 2022, as well as pre-NCRMP missions in 2011. CAUs are PVC settlement plates that facilitate the recruitment and colonization of crustose coralline algae, hard corals, and other reef calcifiers. Laboratory experiments show that CCA and coral calcification rates are strongly correlated with seawater chemistry, and shifts in carbonate chemistry conditions due to ocean acidification could lead to reduced calcification and accretion rates and ecological phase shifts in coral reef communities. Coral reef calcium carbonate accretion rates can be estimated by measuring the change in weight of the CAUs between deployment and retrieval. Monitoring net accretion over successive deployments allows for the detection of changes in reef calcification rates over time. Five units were deployed on the seafloor at each CAU site for 3 years in 2011 and 2014, and 5 years in 2017. The number of processed CAUs for a site may be less than the number deployed, either because the units were lost or damaged at sea and therefore not recovered, or in rare instances, due to errors during laboratory processing. This study provides information about spatial and temporal patterns of reef carbonate calcification and accretion rates and serves as a basis for detecting changes associated with changing seawater chemistry due to ocean acidification. These data can also be used in comparative analyses across natural gradients, thereby assisting efforts to determine whether key reef-building taxa can acclimatize to changing oceanographic environments. These data will have immediate, direct impacts on predictions of reef resilience in a higher carbon dioxide (CO2) world and on the design of reef management strategies.

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Name Format Description Link
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Agrihan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0175165
0 CAU unit recoveries collected across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2022 (RA2201). These CAU units were deployed during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). Data include calcification rates per CAU unit. http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0284919
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/36072
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Summary report of baseline surveys and installations conducted in 2015 in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/36072.pdf
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2022 (RA2201). http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0284919
0 CAU unit recoveries collected across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Agrihan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). These CAU units were deployed during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401), with the exception of nineteen CAU units from Agrihan and one CAU unit from Asuncion Islands that were deployed during pre-NCRMP mission in 2011 (HA1101). Data include calcification rates per CAU unit. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0175165
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157758
0 CAU unit recoveries collected across the Marianas Archipelago (Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Pagan, Asuncion, Maug) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). These CAU units were deployed during pre-NCRMP mission in 2011 (HA1101). Data include calcification rates per CAU unit. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157758

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