Posted on EPOCA: 04 Aug 2011 Global change includes alterations in ocean temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and pH, abiotic variables with strong and interacting influences on the physiology of all taxa. Physiological stresses resulting from changes in these four variables may cause broad biogeographic shifts as well as localized changes
Month: August 2011
Oceanography: Forecasting the rain ratio
Another reference to the Nature article posted on EPOCA 04 Aug 2011 Sensitivity of coccolithophores to carbonate chemistry and ocean acidification Marine algae known as coccolithophores produce much of the ocean’s calcium carbonate. A large survey reveals how these organisms’ calcification processes and species distribution change in response to