Long Exposure to Sunlight Helps Arctic Kelp Offset Ocean Acidity (5 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Long Exposure to Sunlight Helps Arctic Kelp Offset Ocean Acidity (5 of 7)

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Measuring photosynthesis in the field, Disko Bay, Greenland. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 14, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Krause-Jensen at Aarhus University in Århus, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Long photoperiods sustain high pH in Arctic kelp forests."

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Carlos M. Duarte

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