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Funding opportunity: Regional ecosystem prediction program: Potential impacts of ocean acidification on fishery ecosystems

Posted on EPOCA: 16 Dec 2011  NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR is accepting proposals which address the potential ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification to fishery ecosystems of US waters. Research should focus on the development of ecological models (linked to biogeochemical models if possible) which can be used to predict population and/or ecosystem level

Calcium carbonate production response to future ocean warming and acidification

Posted on EPOCA: 14 Dec 2011 Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are acidifying the ocean, affecting calcification rates in pelagic organisms and thereby modifying the oceanic alkalinity cycle. However, the responses of pelagic calcifying organisms to acidification vary widely between species, contributing uncertainty to predictions of atmospheric CO2 and the resulting