Posted on EPOCA : 21 Jun 2011 Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological impact of acidification
Month: June 2011
Effects on marine algae of changed seawater chemistry with increasing CO2
Posted on EPOCA: 12 Jul 2011 The acid–base relations of plant (including algal) environments are complex, comprising geological processes as modified by biology including, especially over the last 200 years, man. Some habitats (e.g. high intertidal rockpools and some freshwater bodies) have pH variations of up to three units over
Nutrition and income from molluscs today imply vulnerability to ocean acidification tomorrow
Posted on EPOCA: 11 Jul 2011 Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human industrial activities are causing a progressive alteration of seawater chemistry, termed ocean acidification, which has decreased seawater pH and carbonate ion concentration markedly since the Industrial Revolution. Many marine organisms, like molluscs and corals, build hard
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