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Marine Life Sandwiched by Rising CO2

By Carlos Duarte, University of Western Australia Red Sea Coral appear particularly resistant to climate change. Carlos M. Duarte  The oceans have absorbed almost 50 % of the CO2 humans released into the atmosphere, which has driven CO2 in the oceans to rise, causing – because of the effect of

Long-term and trans-life-cycle effects of exposure to ocean acidification in the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Posted on EPOCA: 31 Mar 2012 Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are acidifying the world’s oceans. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that ocean acidification can impact survival, growth, development and physiology of marine invertebrates. Here, we tested the impact of long-term (up to 16 months) and trans-life-cycle (adult, embryo/larvae and juvenile) exposure to

Detection and projection of carbonate dissolution in the water column and deep-sea sediments due to ocean acidification

Posted on EPOCA: 31 Mar 2012 Dissolution of fossil fuel CO2 in seawater results in decreasing carbonate ion concentration and lowering of seawater pH with likely negative impacts for many marine organisms. We project detectable changes in carbonate dissolution and evaluate their potential to mitigate atmospheric CO2 and ocean acidification with a

High temporal and spatial variability of dissolved oxygen and pH in a nearshore California kelp forest

Posted on EPOCA: 31 Mar 2012  Predicting consequences of ocean deoxygenation and ocean acidification for nearshore marine ecosystems requires baseline dissolved oxygen (DO) and carbonate chemistry data that are both high-frequency and high-quality. Such data allow accurate assessment of environmental variability and present-day organism exposure regimes. In this study, scales