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    "title": "National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed at Cheeca Rocks in the Florida Keys from 2014 to 2017",
    "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 Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) led NCRMP missions around the Florida Keys in 2014 and 2017 and processed at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. 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.\n\nCoral 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. 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.\n\nThis 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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        "743",
        "National Coral Reef Monitoring Program",
        "Numeric Data Sets > Calcification Rate",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Algal Cover",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Algal Growth > Calcification Rate",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Calcareous Macroalgae",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Crustose Coralline Algae",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Encrusting Macroalgae",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Fleshy Macroalgae",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Reef Monitoring and Assessment",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU)",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Calcification",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Carbonate Chemistry",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Ocean Acidification",
        "CALCIFICATION",
        "in situ",
        "laboratory analyses",
        "CORAL REEF STUDIES",
        "Coral Reef Conservation Program",
        "National Coral Reef Monitoring Program",
        "US DOC; NOAA; Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; Ocean Acidification Program",
        "US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division",
        "COUNTRY\/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Cheeca Rocks (24N080W0009)",
        "COUNTRY\/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Islamorada (24N080W0004)",
        "COUNTRY\/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Upper Florida Keys (24N080W0018)",
        "OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Cheeca Rocks (24N080W0009)",
        "OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Islamorada (24N080W0004)",
        "OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Upper Florida Keys (24N080W0018)",
        "Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary",
        "AOML",
        "Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab",
        "Calcification Plate",
        "ESD",
        "Ecosystem Sciences Division",
        "NCRMP",
        "Ocean Acidification",
        "PIFSC",
        "Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center",
        "Settling Plate",
        "calcification accretion unit",
        "triennial",
        "Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU)",
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