Effects of ocean acidification on the socio-ecological system of mitiliculture in southern Chile: Market impacts and challenges for future sustainability under hypothetical models

• Main Author: San Martín Montoya, Valeska Andrea
• Other Authors: Vargas Gálvez, Cristian Antonio, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Ciencias Naturales; Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente; Ecología; Chiloé; Consecuencia; isla Grande; Mercado; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10533/236491

The effects of global change are modifying the fundamental characteristics of the oceans, generating variations in different physical-chemical parameters (e.g. temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH, among others). Greenhouse gas models indicate that an evident increase in the levels of atmospheric carbo...