Short-term ocean acidification decreases pulsation and growth of the widespread soft coral Xenia umbellata

• Arjen Tilstra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arjen Tilstra, Lorena Braxator

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tilstra@uni-bremen.de

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4337-6169

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• Lorena Braxator ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arjen Tilstra, Lorena Braxator

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Bianca Thobor,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3862-1286

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• Selma D. Mezger,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3067-6357

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• Claudia E. L. Hill,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-8567

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• Yusuf C. El-Khaled,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Marine Microbiomes Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Giulia Caporale,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Sohyoung Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, Unites States of America

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Christian Wild

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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