Posted on OA: 06 Sep 2013 — Timmins-Schiffman E., O’Donnell M. J., Friedman C. S. & Roberts S. B., 2013. Marine Biology 160(8): 1973-1982 Increasing atmospheric CO2 equilibrates with surface seawater, elevating the concentration of aqueous hydrogen ions. This process, ocean acidification, is a future and contemporary concern for aquatic organisms,
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Microbial biogeochemistry of coastal upwelling regimes in a changing ocean
Posted on OA: 04 Sep 2013 — Capone D. G. & Hutchins D. A., 2013. Nature Geoscience 6: 711–717. Coastal upwelling regimes associated with eastern boundary currents are the most biologically productive ecosystems in the ocean. As a result, they play a disproportionately important role in the microbially mediated cycling
Signs of adaptation to local pH conditions across an environmental mosaic in the California Current ecosystem
Posted: 04 Sep 2013 — Pespeni M. H., Chan F., Menge B. A. & Palumbi S. R., in press. Integrative & Comparative Biology. Little is known about the potential for rapid evolution in natural populations in response to the high rate of contemporary climatic change. Organisms that have evolved in
The oceans are acidifying at the fastest rate in 300 million years. How worried should we be?
Posted: 04 Sep 2013 — By Brad Plumer, The Washington Post Wonkblog The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what’s likely the fastest pace in 300 million years. Scientists tend to think this is a troubling development. But just how worried should we be, exactly? (Reuters) It’s a question marine experts
Wake-up call – IAEA promotes global action on ocean acidification
Posted on OA: 05 Sep 2013 — AAbha Dixit, IAEA Bulletin 54, 3 September 2013, pp. 10-11. The IAEA is fostering scientific collaboration to provide the sound, fact-based understanding needed to be able to assess human impact on coastal and marine environments. Well-known scientific journals have drawn attention to