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. 2015 Jul 27;3(1):cov033. doi: 10.1093/conphys/cov033

Table 1:

Seawater chemistry of experimental treatments

Treatment Temperature (°C) pH (total scale) Alkalinity (μmol kg−1) pCO2 (μatm) Salinity
Incoming seawater −1.0 ± 0.2 7.962 ± 0.005 2350.7 ± 3.5 484 ± 6 33.7 ± 0.3
Temperature −1°C
 Ambient CO2 −0.6 ± 0.2 8.01 ± 0.01 2351.8 ± 1.9 425 ± 9 33.8 ± 0.3
 Moderate CO2 −0.6 ± 0.2 7.84 ± 0.02 2350.6 ± 2.6 658 ± 28 33.7 ± 0.3
 High CO2 −0.6 ± 0.1 7.66 ± 0.01 2350.9 ± 2.5 1008 ± 31 33.8 ± 0.4
Temperature +2°C
 Ambient CO2 1.9 ± 0.2 7.99 ± 0.01 2351.9 ± 1.7 456 ± 11 33.7 ± 0.3
 Moderate CO2 2.0 ± 0.2 7.84 ± 0.01 2350.9 ± 1.8 669 ± 18 33.7 ± 0.3
 High CO2 2.0 ± 0.2 7.70 ± 0.01 2351.8 ± 2.2 935 ± 24 33.7 ± 0.3

Temperature, pH, alkalinity and salinity were measured in situ, and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) was calculated using seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2013) in R (R Development Core Team, 2013). All values are means ± SD.