High CO<sub>2</sub> Experiments (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

High CO<sub>2</sub> Experiments

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Lead author Jeff McQuaid watches an array of pumps designed to test the effects of high CO2 on Ross Sea phytoplankton in Antarctica. Several recent studies have noted that high CO2 has a negative effect on phytoplankton growing in low iron environments like the Southern Ocean

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A.E. Allen

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