Call for abstracts for inclusion in the mini-symposium "Environmental and Biogeochemical Controls of Marine Calcification and Coral Reef Accretion" (Session 8c under the Ocean Acidification theme) at the 2012 International Coral Reef Symposium.

Session Title: Environmental and Biogeochemical Controls of Marine Calcification and Coral Reef Accretion

This mini-symposium will focus on the process of calcification in the ocean.  We invite talks on any aspect of control over calcification, including biogenic and non-biogenic, and over any temporal or spatial scale.  The variables influencing calcification of coral reef organisms and associated biota are of particular interest, especially when presented with direct observations from the field, using manipulative experiments, or involving paleoinvestigation, particularly during the Holocene.  Coral growth and reef accretion in the context of ocean acidification, warming temperatures, and changing water quality or light regime are of special importance.  We seek talks demonstrating the natural variability of calcification rates due to drivers like temperature, light, latitude, season, nutrients, nutrition, and seawater calcium-carbonate chemistry.  The role of biogeochemical and/or ecosystem feedback mechanisms as controls of calcification would also be desirable.
Conveners:
Ilsa B. Kuffner, US Geological Survey, Andreas J. Andersson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Nick R. Bates, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences

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