Ocean Acidification
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Ocean Acidification
Ocean acidification is the change in pH of seawater due to the oceans absorbing carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere.
Why does ocean acidification happen?
- Impacts on ocean life & ecosystems
- Examples of impacted organisms
- Invertebrates
- Corals
- Pteropods
- Oysters, Mussels, Clams
- Urchins
- Fish
- Foraminifera
- Invertebrates
- Examples of ecosystem scale responses
- Interactions with other stressors (multistressor)
- hypoxia
- changes in salinity
- Examples of impacted organisms
Multimedia Sources:
www.teachoceanscience.net/tea...t_coral_reefs/ (Coral acidification)
Excellent, general introductory video:
http://youtu.be/Wo-bHt1bOsw (source: Alliance for Climate Change, youtube)
OA pH Graph: www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/file/pH+Time+Series
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa...march_2014.pdf
http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-acidification Videos in the news section for multimedia - bml.ucdavis.edu/research/rese...acidification/ Video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8KEhpEg0s Maps - www.sciencedirect.com/science...04420314001042