Updating what we know about ocean acidification and key global challenges
It is amazing to think that just ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of ocean acidification. It is now much more widely understood that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we are emitting into the air by our activities is reacting with the ocean to alter its chemistry and push it along t...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:89594 2023-05-15T17:49:31+02:00 Updating what we know about ocean acidification and key global challenges Roberts, D 2014 application/pdf http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89594 en eng EPOCA, UKOA, BIOACID and MedSeA http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89594/1/RUG-OA-4-the-knowledge-base-2012.pdf Roberts, D, International Ocean Acidiļ¬cation Reference User Group (IOA-RUG), Updating what we know about ocean acidification and key global challenges, Ocean Acidification: The knowledge base 2012, EPOCA, UKOA, BIOACID and MedSeA, pp. 1-8. (2014) [Report Other] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89594 Environmental Sciences Ecological Applications Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Report Other NonPeerReviewed 2014 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T21:53:03Z It is amazing to think that just ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of ocean acidification. It is now much more widely understood that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we are emitting into the air by our activities is reacting with the ocean to alter its chemistry and push it along the scale towards acidity and is, amongst other effects, reducing the availability of carbonate ions needed by many marine animals and plants to build their shells and skeletons.This paper from the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group, in partnership with national research programmes, provides essential information, and highlights the actions needed on ocean acidification by Governments.There is little doubt that the ocean is under-going dramatic changes that will impact many human lives now, and ever more so in the coming generations, unless we act quickly and decisively.Previous acidification events in the Earths geological record were often associated with extinctions of many species. Whilst the causes of such extinction episodes are complex, it is notable that the biodiversity recovery took hundreds of thousands and after mass extinctions millions of years. Text Ocean acidification eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) |
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It is amazing to think that just ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of ocean acidification. It is now much more widely understood that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we are emitting into the air by our activities is reacting with the ocean to alter its chemistry and push it along the scale towards acidity and is, amongst other effects, reducing the availability of carbonate ions needed by many marine animals and plants to build their shells and skeletons.This paper from the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group, in partnership with national research programmes, provides essential information, and highlights the actions needed on ocean acidification by Governments.There is little doubt that the ocean is under-going dramatic changes that will impact many human lives now, and ever more so in the coming generations, unless we act quickly and decisively.Previous acidification events in the Earths geological record were often associated with extinctions of many species. Whilst the causes of such extinction episodes are complex, it is notable that the biodiversity recovery took hundreds of thousands and after mass extinctions millions of years. |
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http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89594/1/RUG-OA-4-the-knowledge-base-2012.pdf Roberts, D, International Ocean Acidiļ¬cation Reference User Group (IOA-RUG), Updating what we know about ocean acidification and key global challenges, Ocean Acidification: The knowledge base 2012, EPOCA, UKOA, BIOACID and MedSeA, pp. 1-8. (2014) [Report Other] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89594 |
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