Experimental Design, 5 Months (IMAGE)

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Experimental Design, 5 Months

Caption

This is a schematic of the five month experimental design. The upper 8 tanks represent the preconditioning phase of the experiment (first 3 mo.) where all corals were held at 26°C and half were exposed to ambient CO2 (390 ppm) and the other half exposed to high CO2 (900 ppm). The bottom 8 tanks represent the warming phase of the experiment (last 2mo) where 2 of the 4 tanks at 26°C/390ppm were ramped to 31°C (represented by red arrows), while the other 2 remained the same (represented by blue arrows), and 2 of the 4 tanks at 26°C/900ppm were ramped to 31°C while the other 2 remained the same.

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Erica Towle, Ph.D.

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