Leading Ocean Scientists Recommend Action Plan To Combat Changes to Seawater Chemistry (IMAGE)

Ocean Science Trust

Leading Ocean Scientists Recommend Action Plan To Combat Changes to Seawater Chemistry

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Recent work combining organismal assays with field sampling across OAH gradients revealed that in situ calcification of pteropods -- a prey item for salmonids, herring and mackerel - is already being compromised by anthropogenic CO2 (Bednaršek et al. 2014).

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Nina Bednaršek, NOAA

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