Current understanding and challenges for oceans in a higher-CO 2 world

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Hurd, CL, Lenton, AA, Tilbrook, B, Boyd, PW
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Climate Change 2018
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Biological Oceanography; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0211-0; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/126813

Ocean acidification is a global phenomenon, but it is overlaid by pronounced regional variability modulated by local physics,chemistry and biology. Recognition of its multifaceted nature and the interplay of acidification with other ocean drivers hasled to international and regional initiatives to establish observation networks and develop unifying principles for biologicalresponses. There is growing awareness of the threat presented by ocean acidification to ecosystem services and the socio-economicconsequences are becoming increasingly apparent and quantifiable. In this higher-CO 2 world, future challenges involvebetter design and rigorous testing of adaptation, mitigation and intervention options to offset the effects of ocean acidificationat scales ranging from local to regional.