Understanding Ocean Acidification Impacts on Organismal to Ecological Scales.

Andersson, Andreas, Kline, David, Edmunds, Peter, Archer, Stephen, Bednaršek, Nina, Carpenter, Robert, Chadsey, Meg, Goldstein, Philip, Grottoli, Andrea, Hurst, Thomas, King, Andrew, Kübler, Janet, Kuffner, Ilsa, Mackey, Katherine, Menge, Bruce, Paytan, Adina, Riebesell, Ulf , Schnetzer, Astrid, Warner, Mark and Zimmerman, Richard (2015) Understanding Ocean Acidification Impacts on Organismal to Ecological Scales. Oceanography, 28 (2). pp. 16-27. DOI 10.5670/oceanog.2015.27.

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Abstract

Ocean acidification (OA) research seeks to understand how marine ecosystems and global elemental cycles will respond to changes in seawater carbonate chemistry in combination with other environmental perturbations such as warming, eutrophication, and deoxygenation. Here, we discuss the effectiveness and limitations of current research approaches used to address this goal. A diverse combination of approaches is essential to decipher the consequences of OA to marine organisms, communities, and ecosystems. Consequently, the benefits and limitations of each approach must be considered carefully. Major research challenges involve experimentally addressing the effects of OA in the context of large natural variability in seawater carbonate system parameters and other interactive variables, integrating the results from different research approaches, and scaling results across different temporal and spatial scales.

Document Type: Article
Additional Information: WOS:000357231700005
Keywords: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; CARBON-DIOXIDE; CORAL-REEFS; ANTHROPOGENIC CO2; MARINE ORGANISMS; CALCIFICATION; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; METAANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; MESOCOSM
Research affiliation: Kiel University
OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-BI Biological Oceanography
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Oceanography Society
Projects: Future Ocean
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2015 07:57
Last Modified: 23 Sep 2019 22:24
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29107

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