Sentences with phrase «on calcification»

«Some of the organisms that rely on calcification to create shells would have suffered particularly badly,» says Clarkson.

Whether these unicellular multi-talented organisms will be able to fulfil their functions in the future, depends on how much extra energy they have to spend on calcification — and how their competitors in the food web react to ocean change.

The stunting effect of a high CO2 ocean on calcification and development in sea urchin larvae, a synthesis from the tropics to the poles

These responses include impacts on calcification rates [18,19], immune function [20], reproduction and carryover effects in larval and juvenile stages of invertebrates [21], enhanced productivity in phytobenthos [22 — 25] but reduced calcification and growth in calcareous algae [26 — 28].

Factors that had the greatest effect on calcification were CO2 removal and subsequent generation of alkaline pH. As CO2 was removed, growth medium pH increased and soluble Ca2 + was removed from solution.

In these studies, the smaller size of larvae reared in ocean acidification conditions indicates an overall negative effect on calcification (table 1 and figure 2).