Suitability of volcanic vents at White Island, New Zealand for climate change research: effects on sea urchins and coralline algae

• Main Author: Brinkman, Tamar Johanna
• Other Authors: Smith, Abigail
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2014
• Subjects: New Zealand; volcanic vents; White Island; ocean acidification; crustose coralline algae; sea urchins; kina; evechinus chloroticus; Bay of Plenty; Island Bay; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4882

Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 is causing substantial changes in ocean chemistry: reducing pH, increasing surface temperature and reducing dissolved oxygen. Using natural CO2 vents to study the effects on marine organisms enables better projections of future ecosystems than laboratory studies c...