Posted on PhysOrg: 16 Dec 2014 — By Cheryl Dybas Mediterranean mussels at the Penn Cove Shellfish Farm in Washington’s Puget Sound. Credit: Penn Cove Shellfish Farm The mortality of larval Pacific oysters in Northwest hatcheries has been linked to ocean acidification. Yet the rate of increase in carbon
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Saturation-state sensitivity of marine bivalve larvae to ocean acidification
Posted on Nature Climate Change: 15 Dec 2014 — George G. Waldbusser, Burke Hales, Chris J. Langdon, Brian A. Haley, Paul Schrader, Elizabeth L. Brunner, Matthew W. Gray, Cale A. Miller & Iria Gimenez Ocean acidification results in co-varying inorganic carbon system variables. Of these, an explicit focus on
The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities, and challenges
Posted on OA: 15 Dec 2014 Carbon dioxide (CO2) is, next to water vapour, considered to be the most important natural greenhouse gas on Earth. Rapidly rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations caused by human actions such as fossil-fuel burning, land-use change or cement production over the past 250 years have
First evidence of altered sensory quality in a shellfish (northern “pink” shrimp) exposed to decreased pH relevant to ocean acidification
Posted on OA: 10 Dec 2014 Understanding how seafood will be influenced by coming environmental changes such as ocean acidification is a research priority. One major gap in knowledge relates to the fact that many experiments are not considering relevant end points related directly to production (e.g., size, survival)
Design, construction, and operation of an actively controlled deep-sea CO2 enrichment experiment using a cabled observatory system
Posted on OA: 27 Nov 2014 — Kirkwood W. J., Walz P. M., Peltzer E. T., Barry J. P., Herlien R. A., Headley K. L., Kecy C., Matsumoto G. I., Maughan T., O’Reilly T. C., Salamy K. A., Shane F. & Brewer P. G., in press. Deep Sea Research Part