Ocean acidification refugia of the Florida Reef Tract

DP Manzello, IC Enochs, N Melo, DK Gledhill… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to reduce the calcification rates of marine organisms,
yet we have little understanding of how OA will manifest within dynamic, real-world systems …

Shifts in coral reef biogeochemistry and resulting acidification linked to offshore productivity

KL Yeakel, AJ Andersson, NR Bates… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) has acidified open-ocean surface
waters by 0.1 pH units since preindustrial times. Despite unequivocal evidence of ocean …

Understanding ocean acidification impacts on organismal to ecological scales

AJ Andersson, DI Kline, PJ Edmunds, SD Archer… - Oceanography, 2015 - JSTOR
Ocean acidification (OA) research seeks to understand how marine ecosystems and global
elemental cycles will respond to changes in seawater carbonate chemistry in combination …

Impacts of ocean acidification in naturally variable coral reef flat ecosystems

EC Shaw, BI McNeil, B Tilbrook - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification leads to changes in marine carbonate chemistry that are predicted to
cause a decline in future coral reef calcification. Several laboratory and mesocosm …

Estimating total alkalinity in the Washington State coastal zone: complexities and surprising utility for ocean acidification research

AJ Fassbender, SR Alin, RA Feely, AJ Sutton… - Estuaries and …, 2017 - Springer
Evidence of ocean acidification (OA) throughout the global ocean has galvanized some
coastal communities to evaluate carbonate chemistry variations closer to home. An …

Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western Pacific reef

KEF Shamberger, AL Cohen, Y Golbuu… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are acidifying the oceans, reducing the
concentration of carbonate ions ([CO32−]) that calcifying organisms need to build and …

Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forces surface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds

AJ Sutton, CL Sabine, RA Feely, WJ Cai… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
One of the major challenges to assessing the impact of ocean acidification on marine life is
detecting and interpreting long-term change in the context of natural variability. This study …

Coral reefs modify their seawater carbon chemistry–implications for impacts of ocean acidification

KRN Anthony, J A. Kleypas… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Reviews suggest that that the biogeochemical threshold for sustained coral reef growth will
be reached during this century due to ocean acidification caused by increased uptake of …

Modeled effect of coastal biogeochemical processes, climate variability, and ocean acidification on aragonite saturation state in the Bering Sea

DJ Pilcher, DM Naiman, JN Cross… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Bering Sea is highly vulnerable to ocean acidification (OA) due to naturally cold, poorly
buffered waters and ocean mixing processes. Harsh weather conditions within this rapidly …

Similar controls on calcification under ocean acidification across unrelated coral reef taxa

S Comeau, CE Cornwall, TM DeCarlo… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification (OA) is a major threat to marine ecosystems, particularly coral reefs
which are heavily reliant on calcareous species. OA decreases seawater pH and calcium …