Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems

SC Doney, M Ruckelshaus… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
In marine ecosystems, rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change are associated with
concurrent shifts in temperature, circulation, stratification, nutrient input, oxygen content, and …

Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification

O Hoegh-Guldberg, PJ Mumby, AJ Hooten, RS Steneck… - science, 2007 - science.org
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to exceed 500 parts per million and
global temperatures to rise by at least 2° C by 2050 to 2100, values that significantly exceed …

Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem

SC Doney, VJ Fabry, RA Feely… - Annual review of marine …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), primarily from human fossil fuel combustion,
reduces ocean pH and causes wholesale shifts in seawater carbonate chemistry. The …

Impact of ocean warming and ocean acidification on marine invertebrate life history stages: vulnerabilities and potential for persistence in a changing ocean

R Gibson, R Atkinson, J Gordon… - Oceanogr Mar Biol …, 2011 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Global warming and increased atmospheric CO2 are causing the oceans to warm, decrease
in pH and become hypercapnic. These stressors have deleterious impacts on marine …

Coral resilience to ocean acidification and global warming through pH up-regulation

M McCulloch, J Falter, J Trotter, P Montagna - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
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 …

Ocean acidification causes bleaching and productivity loss in coral reef builders

KRN Anthony, DI Kline, G Diaz-Pulido… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Ocean acidification represents a key threat to coral reefs by reducing the calcification rate of
framework builders. In addition, acidification is likely to affect the relationship between corals …

Volcanic carbon dioxide vents show ecosystem effects of ocean acidification

JM Hall-Spencer, R Rodolfo-Metalpa, S Martin… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide (p CO 2) will almost certainly be double
that of pre-industrial levels by 2100 and will be considerably higher than at any time during …

Ecosystem effects of ocean acidification in times of ocean warming: a physiologist's view

HO Pörtner - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 - int-res.com
Ocean warming and acidification occur at global scales and, in the case of temperature,
have already caused shifts in marine ecosystem composition and function. In the case of CO …

Coralline algae (Rhodophyta) in a changing world: integrating ecological, physiological, and geochemical responses to global change

SJ McCoy, NA Kamenos - Journal of phycology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coralline algae are globally distributed benthic primary producers that secrete calcium
carbonate skeletons. In the context of ocean acidification, they have received much recent …

Ocean acidification and its potential effects on marine ecosystems

JM Guinotte, VJ Fabry - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification is rapidly changing the carbonate system of the world oceans. Past mass
extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification, and the current rate of change in …