Posted on OA: 5 May 2016 — Miller J. J., Maher M., Bohaboy E., Friedman C. S. & McElhany P., 2016. Marine Biology 163:118 The Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, is an important resource species, and in Puget Sound, USA, where the adults occur in inshore waters that have summer pH
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New West Coast mission investigates ocean acidification threat
Posted on OA: 5 May 2016 — NOAA News May 4, 2016 – Tomorrow, NOAA scientists will steam out of San Diego harbor to lead the most extensive effort to understand changing ocean chemistry on the West Coast and its impact on economically and culturally important fish and shellfish. Ocean
Ocean acidification affects the phyto-zoo plankton trophic transfer efficiency
Posted on OA: 22 Apr 2016 The critical role played by copepods in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry warrants an understanding of how these animals may respond to ocean acidification (OA). Whilst an appreciation of the potential direct effects of OA, due to elevated pCO2, on copepods is improving, little is
Pteropods on the edge: cumulative effects of ocean acidification, warming, and deoxygenation
Posted on OA: 20 Apr 2016 — Bednaršek N., Harvey C. J., Kaplan I. C., Feely R. A. & Možina J., in press. Progress in Oceanography. We review the state of knowledge of the individual and community responses of euthecosome (shelled) pteropods in the context of global environmental change. In
Ecosystem effects of shell aggregations and cycling in coastal waters: An example of Chesapeake Bay oyster reefs
Waldbusser, G.G., E.N. Powell, and R. Mann (2013). Ecology 94(4) Disease, overharvesting, and pollution have impaired the role of bivalves on coastal ecosystems, some to the point of functional extinction. An underappreciated function of many bivalves in these systems is shell formation. The ecological significance of bivalve shell has been