Sentences with phrase «effect of acidification»

There doesn't seem to be a lot of scientific literature on the effect of acidification on marine ecosystems.

Because we could not collect sufficient hindgut content to serve as a medium in which to perform in vitro testing of the effect of acidification on the growth of the five primary hindgut bacteria, we used LB broth instead.

When both factors were combined, the positive temperature effect compensated for the negative effect of acidification — regardless of how much food the animals received.

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests Arctic waters are already seeing the effects of acidification, with potentially dire consequences to Alaska's rich crab and salmon fisheries

In a new study published in Global Change Biology, University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science researchers Sean Bignami, Su Sponaugle, and Robert Cowen are the first to study the effects of acidification on the larvae of cobia (Rachycentron canandum).

Another novelty of the experiment: fishery biologists added herring eggs into the mesocosms to test the effects of acidification on hatching success and larval development.

Besides water temperature, are there other elements determining different effects of acidification in different oceans?

[Response: I agree it's hard to know how noticable the effects of acidification will be to the person in the boat or in the street, relative to all the other insults being visited on the oceans.

Most organisms that have been investigated display greater sensitivity at extreme temperatures, so as ocean temperatures change, those species that are forced to exist at the edges of their thermal ranges will experience stronger effects of acidification.

It is probably premature to make definitive claims about the effects of acidification on individual examples without further research.

The similar responses in echinoplutei across regions, including smaller arms, changes in morphometry and increased abnormality and mortality are likely owing to the interactive effects of this metabolic stressor (hypercapnia) and the toxic effects of acidification on regulation of development and body patterning.

By contrast, for marine ecosystems no local solution exists to temper the effects of acidification on the behavioural impairment observed in fishes.

Not exact matches

Hall's coral studies focus on the effects of heat, acidification, and disease, which help scientists find and breed particularly resilient candidates for replanting on reefs.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.

While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of ocean acidification.

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

So this work provides a glimmer of hope that coral reefs can attenuate the effects of ocean acidification.»

«This approach not only mitigates CO2, but also potentially treats the effects of ocean acidification,» said Rau, adding that he believes more research at a larger scale is warranted.

Nitrogen saturation can cause a cascade of adverse effects including a decrease in biodiversity, changes in plant species, soil acidification and water contamination.

Scientists have been warning that decreasing amounts of available oxygen will increase stress on a range of species, even as they also face the effects of rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

Bizarrely, the reef doesn't appear to be suffering from the effects of ocean acidification just yet.

The research team also reported significant national percentages of non-greenhouse gas effects attributable to the healthcare sector, including acidification (12 %), smog formation (10 %), and respiratory disease from particulate matter (9 %).

«The marine calcifiers that live in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification, a progress which is reducing their mineralization capacity and forming calcium carbonate (CaCO3) skeletons used as a protective and supporting structure against predators» says Blanca Figuerola, main author of the scientific study.

In fact, we found the inhibition of acidification of endosomes enhances the effect of conventional chemotherapy in mice, «says Dr. Lluís Espinosa.

«These results show that the effect of ocean acidification on deep - water corals may not be as severe as predicted,» said David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Much of the research on ocean acidification to date has focused on the effect changing seawater chemistry has on the calcium carbonate shells of shellfish.

The net effect of changes in temperature and ocean acidification on benthic microalgae is non-existent if there are crustaceans in the ecosystem.

In the journal Nature Climate Change it is demonstrated, that modeled DMS emissions decrease by about 18 (± 3) % in 2100 compared to preindustrial times as a result of the combined effects of ocean acidification and climate change.

The experiment of the Kiel marine biologists shows how local environmental factors such as eutrophication may amplify the effects of global factors such as rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

«This research is an important step,» says Garrison, «in being able to predict, and perhaps mitigate, the effects of ocean acidification on coastal resources.»

According to a study conducted by marine biologists of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Rostock University within the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), eutrophication — that is already known for its negative effects — and rising seawater temperatures could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack in the Baltic Sea.

A study of California mussels, a key species in the rocky intertidal ecosystems of the West Coast, indicates that the effects of ocean acidification will vary from place to place along the coast depending on a range of interacting factors.

Aran Mooney, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who studies the effects of ocean acidification on Atlantic long - fin squid larvae, said some methods Sunday recommends are not practical for studying all species.

Ocean acidification is therefore one of the most important research areas regarding the effects of elevated CO2 on benthic marine calcifiers and the marine ecosystem in general.

The lab finding is «part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors will have effects beyond shell mineralization,» said Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification.

«Shellfish response to ocean acidification depends on other stressors: Vulnerability of mussels to harmful effects from acidic seawater varies among different locations along the West Coast, study finds.»

B. Riegl and S. Purkis's E-Letter on our recent Review (1) focuses on promoting assisted migration, based on a belief that local adaptation and (unassisted) migration will be insufficient to allow corals to cope with the effects of global warming and ocean acidification.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

Or they might decrease the water's pH by 0.4 units to study the effects of ocean acidification.

On the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.»

Even after more than two thousand generations under acidified conditions, these responses still prevail to some extent, suggesting that evolutionary adaptation may not be able to completely eliminate the negative effects of ocean acidification.

The results of this study demonstrate the importance of investigating the effects of ocean acidification in natural communities.

(A) explain how managers are expected to address the effects of climate change and ocean acidification;

Comparable groups not possessing calcium carbonate shells were less severely affected, raising the possibility that ocean acidification, as a side - effect of the collision, might have been responsible for the apparent selectivity of the extinctions.

(1) establish programs for assessing the current and future impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's, respectively, jurisdiction, including cumulative and synergistic effects, and for identifying and monitoring those natural resources that are likely to be adversely affected and that have need for conservation;

... [I] t is important to acknowledge that there are no studies that directly demonstrate modern day effects of OA [ocean acidification] on marine species.»