Sentences with phrase «ocean acidity affects»

A new paper tests how increasing ocean acidity affects coral growth in the natural environment, where a multitude of additional factors such as light, temperature, and nutrients are important.

Not exact matches

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

However, this process also increases the acidity of seawater and can affect the health of marine organisms and the ocean ecosystem.

By manipulating the acidity of the Biosphere 2 ocean and measuring the resulting growth rates in coral between 1996 and 2003, Langdon proved that ocean acidification from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide would radically affect calcium carbonate — shelled marine life (pdf).

Oh yeah, there's also this thing called pH which affects ocean acidity and the carbon cycle of those very same coral reefs.

* the carbon reservoir in the deep ocean is so large that we could sequester CO2 there without affecting the overall acidity of the deep ocean.

But it appears oceans will still absorb less carbon due to the increasing acidity affect.

The pollution produced by carbon dioxide increases the acidity of the oceans and affects the marine food chain.

WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a «fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation» not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.

The Antarctic ice sheet reached the coastline for the first time at ca. 33.6 Ma and became a driver of Antarctic circulation, which in turn affected global climate, causing increased latitudinal thermal gradients and a «spinning up» of the oceans that resulted in: (1) increased thermohaline circulation and erosional pulses of Northern Component Water and Antarctic Bottom Water; (2) increased deep - basin ventilation, which caused a decrease in oceanic residence time, a decrease in deep - ocean acidity, and a deepening of the calcite compensation depth (CCD); and (3) increased diatom diversity due to intensified upwelling.

Lobsters and other shellfish will be affected by changing ocean acidity.

«In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct affect on the world's oceans,» the report found, particularly an increase in levels of acidity, which it said are a threat to marine life.

Not only does this increasing acidity threaten the ocean food chain by hampering the formation of shells and corals, it could also affect the communication of marine mammals by changing the way sound travels through the seawater.