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Food supply confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification
Ramajo, L.; Pérez-León, E.; Hendriks, I.E.; Marba, N.; Krause-Jensen, D.; Sejr, M.K.; Blicher, M.E.; Lagos, N.A.; Olsen, Y.S.; Duarte, C.M. (2016). Food supply confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification. NPG Scientific Reports 6(19374): 6 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19374
In: Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2045-2322; e-ISSN 2045-2322
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Keywords
    Climate Change
    Environmental Managers & Monitoring
    Fisheries > Stock Assessment
    Marine Sciences > Oceanography
    Scientific Community
    Scientific Publication
    Marine/Coastal
Project Top | Authors 
  • Association of European marine biological laboratories
Authors  Top 
  • Ramajo, L.
  • Pérez-León, E.
  • Hendriks, I.E.
  • Marba, N.
  • Krause-Jensen, D.
  • Sejr, M.K.
  • Blicher, M.E.
  • Lagos, N.A.
  • Olsen, Y.S.
  • Duarte, C.M.
Abstract
    Invasion of ocean surface waters by anthropogenic CO2 emitted to the atmosphere is expected to reduce surface seawater pH to 7.8 by the end of this century compromising marine calcifiers. A broad range of biological and mineralogical mechanisms allow marine calcifiers to cope with ocean acidification, however these mechanisms are energetically demanding which affect other biological processes (trade-offs) with important implications for the resilience of the organisms against stressful conditions. Hence, food availability may play a critical role in determining the resistance of calcifiers to OA. Here we show, based on a meta-analysis of existing experimental results assessing the role of food supply in the response of organisms to OA, that food supply consistently confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification.
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