Respiration of the Chilean Stony Cold-water Coral Caryophyllia huinayensis


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Scleractinian corals (or stony corals) are important habitat forming organisms. Their characteristic growth creates three dimensional structures that provide shelter, settlement substrate and habitat to a diversity of organisms. This also holds true for cold water corals (CWC), but current knowledge is limited with only two decades of research. Caryophyllia huinayensis (Carins et al. 2005) is a small solitary scleractinian coral, which can serve as a model organism for the study of metabolism of CWC. This stony coral is commonly found in association with the larger scleractinian coral Desmophyllum dianthus in the Chilean Fjord Region, even in diving depths. As to quantify the basic physiological parameter ‘respiration’, specimens of the whole size range were collected at two stations and acclimatised to in vitro condition. Oxygen microoptodes (based on the dynamic fluorescence quenching principle), a four channel optode array, an intermittent flow system, and online data registration were used to measure the metabolic activity of Caryophyllia huinayensis during in vitro respiration experiments. This species showed oxygen consumption rates, ranging from 0.01mg/l up to 1.61mg/l. The overall metabolic rates are compared with those of other scleractinian corals.



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YOUMARES 4 From coast to deep sea: multiscale approaches to marine science, 11 Sep 2013 - 13 Sep 2013, Oldenburg, Germany.
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Wendländer, N. , Häussermann, V. and Laudien, J. (2013): Respiration of the Chilean Stony Cold-water Coral Caryophyllia huinayensis , YOUMARES 4 From coast to deep sea: multiscale approaches to marine science, Oldenburg, Germany, 11 September 2013 - 13 September 2013 .


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