Sentences with phrase «shell dissolution»

Nina Bednarsek followed with a 2012 paper in which she too attributed shell dissolution of a sea butterfly (Limacina helicina) to increasing anthropogenic CO2.

As will be shown, the depiction would be far more accurate if it was turned upside down, so that the downward arrows point upwards to illustrate shell dissolution happens when old carbon stored at depth is upwelled to the surface.

Limacina helicina shell dissolution as an indicator of declining habitat suitability owing to ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem.

Bednarsek argues the sea butterfly's thin periostracum, especially in juveniles, offers very little to no protection from low pH water suggesting they are very susceptible to life threatening shell dissolution.

And although tropical waters are the most supersaturated and the most unlikely to promote shell dissolution, pteropods are least abundant in those tropical waters.

Furthermore to counteract shell dissolution in damaged areas, sea butterflies rapidly repair their shells by adding more calcium carbonate to the inside of the shell.

In contrast other researchers argue shell dissolution occurs when the periostracum is damaged.

In contrast, her observed shell dissolution only happened where upwelling was the greatest, along Oregon and northern California.

Based on observations, they concluded sea butterflies «are perhaps not as vulnerable to ocean acidification as previously claimed, at least not from direct shell dissolution.»

Snails at five stations showed no evidence of shell dissolution.

Her shell dissolution was limited to just one station.