Published: November 28, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165191 Jonathan M. Jones, Julia Sweet, Mark A. Brzezinski, Heather M. McNair, Uta Passow Abstract Ocean acidification is a threat to many marine organisms, especially those that use calcium carbonate to form their shells and skeletons. The ability to accurately measure the carbonate system is the first step in
Month: November 2016
NOAA research links human-caused CO2 emissions to dissolving sea snail shells off U.S. West Coast
November 22, 2016 – For the first time, NOAA and partner scientists have connected the concentration of human-caused carbon dioxide in waters off the U.S. Pacific coast to the dissolving of shells of microscopic marine sea snails called pteropods. Commercially valuable fish such as salmon, sablefish and rock sole make the
Calcification of the planktonic foraminifera Globigerina bulloides and carbonate ion concentration: Results from the Santa Barbara Basin
Posted on OA: 3 Nov 2016 — Osborne E. B., Thunell R. C., Marshall B. J., Holm J. A., Tappa E. J., Benitez-Nelson C., Cai W.-J. & Chen B., 2016. Paleoceanography 31:1083–1102 Planktonic foraminiferal calcification intensity, reflected by shell wall thickness, has been hypothesized to covary with the carbonate chemistry