Sentences with phrase «buffer changes in ocean chemistry»
Seagrasses also undergo a high rate of photosynthesis that may serve to buffer changes in ocean chemistry that affect shell - building organisms.
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Changes in ocean chemistry, which can be described through the Revelle buffer factor [1], limit oceanic removal of CO2 [2], while the potential for terrestrial vegetation to take up CO2 is also predicted by some models to fall as the climate warms [3], although the size of this feedback is uncertain [4].
* The rising CO2 content of the atmosphere may induce very small changes in the well - buffered ocean chemistry (pH) that could slightly reduce coral calcification rates; but potential positive effects of hydrospheric CO2 enrichment may more than compensate for this modest negative phenomenon.