Sentences with phrase «response to ocean acidification»

As with the experimental data, the researchers grouped the 96 species into six functional groups, then assigned each group a range of responses to ocean acidification, based on the ranges observed in the experiments.

Some crustaceans have been observed with increased amounts of calcification in their exoskeletons in response to ocean acidification, Taylor said.

The GOA - ON Requirements and Governance Plan provides both broad concepts and key critical details on how to meet our high level goals of: 1) to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions; 2) to improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification; 3) and to acquire and exchange the data and knowledge necessary to optimize the modeling of ocean acidification and its impacts.

However, to - date no multispecies study has investigated a biological response to ocean acidification accounting for species evolutionary history and ecology.

«Shellfish response to ocean acidification depends on other stressors: Vulnerability of mussels to harmful effects from acidic seawater varies among different locations along the West Coast, study finds.»

The research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores from a period of climate warming and ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to ocean acidification.

To date, studies of aragonitic, scleractinian CWC responses to ocean acidification have frequently examined short - term acclimation, with effects on coral bio-mineralization, growth, and skeletal strength only becoming evident in experiments run for periods of a year or more (e.g., Tittensor et al., 2010).

In the past decade, research has revealed a wide range of organism responses to ocean acidification — the decline of seawater pH due to an uptake of man - made carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean.

Biofilms rapidly reorganize in response to environmental disturbance and are likely to be both indicators and drivers of community level change in response to ocean acidification.

Numerous experiments have shown that ocean acidification impedes coral calcification, but knowledge about in situ reef ecosystem response to ocean acidification is still scarce.

Biological responses to ocean acidification have been shown to be highly species - specific and often idiosyncratic [10,21,59,60].

Determine status and spatial / temporal patterns in carbon chemistry, assessing the generality of response to ocean acidification.

Intriguingly though, there was very little evidence for any response to ocean acidification, other than perhaps a slight thinning of C. pelagicus coccoliths..

Their responses to ocean acidification have mostly been studied in short - term experiments.

To investigate the extent to which nature or nurture determines marine animals» responses to Ocean Acidification (OA) we carried out in - situ transplants using tolerant and sensitive worms living around a natural CO2 vent.