A coralline alga gains tolerance to ocean acidification over multiple generations of exposure

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Cornwall, C. E., Comeau, S., De Carlo, Thomas Mario, Larcombe, E., Moore, B., Giltrow, K., Puerzer, F., D’Alexis, Q., McCulloch, Malcolm T.
• Other Authors: Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Oceans Graduate School and Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Sorbonne Université, CNRS-INSU, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-mer, France
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: McCoy; New Zealand; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/661361; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0681-8

Crustose coralline algae play a crucial role in the building of reefs in the photic zones of nearshore ecosystems globally, and are highly susceptible to ocean acidification1–3. Nevertheless, the extent to which ecologically important crustose coralline algae can gain tolerance to ocean acidificatio...