Sentences with phrase «on calcifiers»

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

Not exact matches

Ocean acidification is therefore one of the most important research areas regarding the effects of elevated CO2 on benthic marine calcifiers and the marine ecosystem in general.

Up to now previous investigations focused on calcite or aragonite saturation state as indicators of calcifiers thresholds, which may completely miss the vulnerability of many calcifiers.

Previous CO2 rises on Earth happened so slowly that the accompanying ocean acidification was relatively minor, and ammonites and other planktonic calcifiers were able to cope with the changing ocean chemistry.

Workshop report: Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers, A Guide for Further Research (pdf, 8.9 M)

We do not know what changing ocean chemistry will do to marine biota (other than some calcifiers) and especially we do not know what the long - term chronic effects will be on ecosystems.

Because if not, «Laboratory experiments revealed that ocean acidification has negative impacts on the fertilization, cleavage, larva, settlement and reproductive stages of several marine calcifiers, including echinoderm, bivalve, coral and crustacean species.

To date, much of the focus of ocean acidification research has been on the response of calcifiers, both algae and invertebrates, to the changing carbonate system, with a particular preoccupation on one property: the hydrogen ion concentration [H +], which is frequently reported as pH owing to the relative ease of its measurement.