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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ftgeorgiasouth:oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:teach-secondary-facpubs-1143 2023-09-26T15:21:33+02:00 Ease into Climate Change Instruction through Ocean Acidification Owens, David C. Rafolt, Susanne Arneson, Erin M. 2021-04-01T07:00:00Z https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/teach-secondary-facpubs/146 https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 unknown Digital Commons@Georgia Southern https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/teach-secondary-facpubs/146 doi:10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education Faculty Publications ocean acidification climate change carbon dioxide pH marine calcifers Education text 2021 ftgeorgiasouth https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.4.247 2023-08-27T22:19:38Z 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 Georgia Southern University: Digital Commons@Georgia Southern 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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