Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic dead zones as the amount of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals
Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic
dead zones as the amount
of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals
of CO2 goes up and the amount
of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals
of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast
majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals
of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals).