Coral resilience: Ismar article on the italian edition of Scientific American
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Wednesday 01 August 2012
Rapidly rising levels of atmospheric CO2 are not only causing ocean warming, but also lowering seawater pH hence the carbonate saturation state of the oceans, on which many marine organisms depend to calcify their skeletons. Using boron isotope systematics, we show how scleractinian corals up-regulate pH at their site of calcification such that internal changes are approximately one-half of those in ambient seawater.
Also of interest:
Coral resilience to ocean acidification and global warming through pH up-regulation
Malcolm McCulloch, Jim Falter, Julie Trotter & Paolo Montagna
Nature Climate Change 2, 623–627 (2012) doi:10.1038/nclimate1473 Published online 01 April 2012
Resilience of cold-water scleractinian corals to ocean acidification: Boron isotopic systematics of pH and saturation state up-regulation
McCulloch, Malcolm; Trotter, Julie; Montagna, Paolo; Taviani, M.; et al.
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 87 (): 21-34 JUN 15 2012
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