OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: A HELL FOR THE SHELL?! - Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Conference Papers Year : 2010

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: A HELL FOR THE SHELL?!

Abstract

Besides ocean warming, marine calcifying organisms have to deal with another CO2 problem: Ocean acidification. Increasing atmospheric CO2 gets absorbed by the ocean and alters seawater carbonate chemistry. Surface ocean pH already dropped about 0.1 units since the pre-industrial values and the consequent decrease in calcium carbonate saturation potentially threatens shell formation. Oceans pH is expected to become another 0.3 - 0.4 units lower until the end of this century. Synergistic effects of temperature and CO2 on carbonate shell properties will be tested on bivalve mollusks in controlled perturbation experiments.

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Oceanography
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hal-00502908 , version 1 (16-07-2010)

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  • HAL Id : hal-00502908 , version 1

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Kristina Stemmer. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: A HELL FOR THE SHELL?!. ClimECO2 International Summer School - Oceans, Marine Ecosystems, and Society facing Climate Change, Aug 2010, Brest, France. ⟨hal-00502908⟩

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