Sentences with phrase «reef water chemistry»

The objective of this study is to establish a baseline against which changes in reef water chemistry and coral reef metabolic performance can be judged.

Not exact matches

Calcium carbonate has great scientific relevance in biomineralization and geosciences, forming enormous scales of biological (reefs and ocean sediments) and geological origin, which bind a huge amount of CO2 and affect the chemistry of ocean water (1) and, with it, Earth's atmosphere and climate.

Oceanographic data and water samples also were collected daily to evaluate seawater chemistry, patterns of water circulation and potential connectivity between Cuban reefs and those in the U.S.

I will describe efforts in the Florida Keys to characterize the spatial and temporal variability of the carbonate chemistry of the water and the net community production and calcification of the reef community.

No one with a reef tank should be without a reef test kit, but you will be surprised how many people try to wing it when it comes to water chemistry.

If the levels stabilize at 450 ppm, fewer than 10 % of reefs would be in waters with the kind of chemistry that has sustained coral reefs in the past.»