Ocean acidification is a process where the ocean's water become more acidic due to the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This change in acidity can harm marine life, including coral reefs, shellfish, and other organisms that rely on calcium carbonate for their shells and skeletons.
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Their preliminary results suggest important insights into the impacts
of ocean acidification on marine life and their consequences both for society and economy.
Develop, test, and, where appropriate, apply interventions to reduce the effects of
ocean acidification on high - priority areas and species, for example by reducing impacts from local disturbances.
The results of this study demonstrate the importance of investigating the effects of
ocean acidification in natural communities.
Important findings were, that many organisms are affected
by ocean acidification particularly in their early life stages.
Such efforts must remove atmospheric CO2, if they are to address direct CO2 effects such
as ocean acidification as well as climate change.
It is time to reflect on the successes and deficiencies of
ocean acidification research and to take a look forward at the challenges the fastest growing field of marine science is facing.
In addition, if the temperature increases to 1.5 C, it will combine
with ocean acidification driven by rising carbon dioxide emissions to dissolve the world's already threatened coral reefs.
We conclude that near
future ocean acidification levels is not an immediate threat to the early life history stages of Great Barrier Reef corals in the foreseeable future.
It provides an important reference point for scientists, policy - makers and anyone else interested in understanding how
ocean acidification affects our oceans and the vital services they provide.
There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in the emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, and concurrently to
reduce ocean acidification.
What next steps should a coral reef manager take after reading this article to address the impacts of
ocean acidification at their site?
And that would be a big problem, because carbon emissions have all of these other harmful effects
like ocean acidification and so forth.
Five research priorities are also identified to incorporate
ocean acidification into conservation planning and management.
With over 60 measurement parameters and tens of thousands values, this will be the most comprehensive experimental data set ever taken in
studying ocean acidification, according to the press release.
Together these measurements can be used to assess
ocean acidification more quickly and over much larger areas than has been possible before.
The faster people understand how
ocean acidification poses a threat to that way of life, the better our chance of protecting it.
Where atmospheric CO2 works on a rather abstract, global scale,
ocean acidification works on the local one as well, devastating or sometimes completely destroying local ecosystems.
As for climate policy, one needs to consider the ecological and agricultural impacts of warming and
ocean acidification if one expects to be taken seriously.
To
stop ocean acidification, we need to stabilize or even lower greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which is only feasible with major emissions reductions.
However, it is carbon dioxide in particular that has been the biggest contributor to global warming and
ocean acidification so far.
The projected rates of CO2 absorption in the future [88] suggest that
ocean acidification represents a relatively slow driver of future ecological change.
There is now urgency for new research to respond to a much tougher question: To what extent will
ocean acidification alter marine ecosystems and biodiversity?
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