Posted on OA: 31 Aug 2014 — Busch D. S., Maher M., Thibodeau P. & McElhany P., 2014. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105884. We tested whether the thecosome pteropod Limacina helicina from Puget Sound, an urbanized estuary in the northwest continental US, experiences shell dissolution and altered mortality rates when exposed
Month: August 2014
Size matters: plasticity in metabolic scaling shows body-size may modulate responses to climate change
Posted on OA: 29 Aug 2014 — Carey N. & Sigwart J. D., 2014. Biology Letters 10(8):20140408 Variability in metabolic scaling in animals, the relationship between metabolic rate (R) and body mass (M), has been a source of debate and controversy for decades. R is proportional to Mb, the precise
Pacific Ocean acidity dissolving shells of key species: New research from NOAA sounding alarm bells about climate change
Posted on Pasadena Star News: 28 Aug 2014 — By Paul Rogers/San Jose Mercury News and Will Houston/The Times-Standard In a troubling new discovery, scientists studying ocean waters off California, Oregon and Washington have found the first evidence that increasing acidity in the ocean is dissolving the shells of a
Ocean acidification impacts mussel control on biomineralisation
Posted on OA: 20 Aug 2014 — Fitzer S. C., Phoenix V. R., Cusack M. & Kamenos N. A., 2014. Nature Scientific Reports 4:6218 Ocean acidification is altering the oceanic carbonate saturation state and threatening the survival of marine calcifying organisms. Production of their calcium carbonate exoskeletons is dependent not
Moss Landing study eyes impact of increasingly acidic ocean
Posted on Santa Cruz Sentinel: 18 Aug 2014 — Researchers awarded $330,000 to explore future of fisheries — By Donna Jones Moss Landing Marine Labs Assistant Professor Scott Hamilton tends to his research subjects — hundreds of captured, juvenile rockfish he’s studying with a 330,000 National Science Foundation grant