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...
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ftbioone:10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 2024-05-12T08:09:13+00:00 Ease Into Climate Change Instruction Through Ocean Acidification David C. Owens Susanne Rafolt Erin M. Arneson David C. Owens Susanne Rafolt Erin M. Arneson world 2021-05-05 text/HTML https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 en eng National Association of Biology Teachers doi:10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 Text 2021 ftbioone https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 2024-04-16T02:13:14Z 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. Text Ocean acidification BioOne Online Journals 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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