Ease into Climate Change Instruction through Ocean Acidification
Although climate change garners the bulk of headlines, ocean acidification is an equally important issue that also results from our increasing consumption of fossil fuels. As atmospheric CO2 dissolves into the ocean, the ocean’s pH decreases, making it increasingly difficult for organisms that build...
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crunicaliforniap:10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 2023-08-27T04:11:16+02:00 Ease into Climate Change Instruction through Ocean Acidification Owens, David C. Rafolt, Susanne Arneson, Erin M. 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/83/4/247/460148/abt.2021.83.4.247.pdf en eng University of California Press The American Biology Teacher volume 83, issue 4, page 247-253 ISSN 0002-7685 1938-4211 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Education journal-article 2021 crunicaliforniap https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 2023-08-04T13:06:29Z Although climate change garners the bulk of headlines, ocean acidification is an equally important issue that also results from our increasing consumption of fossil fuels. As atmospheric CO2 dissolves into the ocean, the ocean’s pH decreases, making it increasingly difficult for organisms that build calcium carbonate skeletons to grow and thrive. Given that these marine calcifiers – such as corals, snails, shellfish, crustaceans, and plankton – often form the base of oceanic food webs and are habitat and food resources for larger oceanic plants and animals (including humans), ocean acidification poses a serious threat. In this article, we present a series of investigations that provide evidence that increases in anthropogenic sources of CO2 contribute to the acidification of the ocean, and that an increasingly acidic ocean can negatively impact marine calcifiers. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification University of California Press (via Crossref) The American Biology Teacher 83 4 247 253 |
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Although climate change garners the bulk of headlines, ocean acidification is an equally important issue that also results from our increasing consumption of fossil fuels. As atmospheric CO2 dissolves into the ocean, the ocean’s pH decreases, making it increasingly difficult for organisms that build calcium carbonate skeletons to grow and thrive. Given that these marine calcifiers – such as corals, snails, shellfish, crustaceans, and plankton – often form the base of oceanic food webs and are habitat and food resources for larger oceanic plants and animals (including humans), ocean acidification poses a serious threat. In this article, we present a series of investigations that provide evidence that increases in anthropogenic sources of CO2 contribute to the acidification of the ocean, and that an increasingly acidic ocean can negatively impact marine calcifiers. |
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