Towards a broader perspective on ocean acidification research

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Author: Browman, Howard I.
• Other Authors: “Ocean acidification”, “Fine scale interactions in the plankton”, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2017
• Subjects: Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx073; http://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/74/4/889/31246395/fsx073.pdf

Ocean acidification (OA) continues to be one of the most studied single topics in marine science. Almost 800 articles on OA appeared in 2016 alone. Forty-four of those were published in a special themed issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science, “Towards a broader perspective on ocean acidification research.” Submissions to that themed initiative continued well beyond the original deadline and were so numerous that we decided to publish this—a second OA-themed issue—which contains an additional 33 articles. In this Introduction, I briefly present the contributions that appear in this theme issue, and then offer an updated assessment of the status of OA research.