Sentences with phrase «gradual acidification»

Scientists are concerned that ocean acidification — a gradual acidification of seawater — could have negative consequences for marine organisms, marine food webs, and entire ecosystems.

Howard says that CO2 emissions must be cut or captured and stored permanently in some fashion to halt this gradual acidification of the world's oceans.

The oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 leads to a gradual acidification of the ocean.

Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought — giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation.

Not exact matches

«The challenge is really first understanding what the natural variability looks like in this data - poor region, and then making measurements long enough that we can tease out the long - term ocean acidification trend, which is this gradual increase through time,» he said «It's really hard to see with just one or two years of data.»

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are leading to a gradual decrease in ocean pH and changes in seawater carbonate chemistry, a process known as ocean acidification (OA).

Climate change will affect fisheries and aquaculture through gradual warming, ocean acidification and through changes in the frequency, intensity and location of extreme events.

However, the gradual trend in ocean acidification will be overlaid on additional stressors to marine ecosystems (e.g. temperature, fishing and nutrients) as well as short - term perturbations that occur at local to regional scales (e.g. storms, coral bleaching, coral disease and mass urchin mortalities).