Sentences with phrase «calcifying plankton»

The above quote from it references a 2007 study, «Climate - related increases in jellyfish frequency suggest a more gelatinous future for the North Sea,» that points out acidification will «severely affect calcifying plankton and other skeleton - forming organisms, so would potentially favor noncalcifying organisms such as jellyfish.»

«Southern Ocean acidification via anthropogenic CO2 uptake is expected to be detrimental to multiple calcifying plankton species by lowering the concentration of carbonate ion (CO32 − to levels where calcium carbonate (both aragonite and calcite) shells begin to dissolve.

[27] Experiments suggest it is also very harmful to calcifying plankton.

Not exact matches

Exactly these elements are needed by calcifying organisms — plankton, mussels, snails, crabs or corals — to build their shells and skeletons.

This, of course, causes ocean acidification and ocean warming, which are progressing especially rapidly in the North Pacific and Arctic oceans and threatening the survival of many calcifying marine organisms, including cold - water corals (and the plankton they eat).