Food supply confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification

Invasion of ocean surface waters by anthropogenic CO emitted to the atmosphere is expected to reduce surface seawater pH to 7.8 by the end of this century compromising marine calcifiers. A broad range of biological and mineralogical mechanisms allow marine calcifiers to cope with ocean acidification...

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Autores: Ramajo, Laura, Pérez-León, Elia, Hendriks, Iris E., Marbà, Núria, Krause-Jensen, Dorte, Sejr, Mikael K., Blicher, M. E., Lagos, Nelson A., Olsen, Ylva S., Duarte, Carlos M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/132727
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/132727
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:Invasion of ocean surface waters by anthropogenic CO emitted to the atmosphere is expected to reduce surface seawater pH to 7.8 by the end of this century compromising marine calcifiers. A broad range of biological and mineralogical mechanisms allow marine calcifiers to cope with ocean acidification, however these mechanisms are energetically demanding which affect other biological processes (trade-offs) with important implications for the resilience of the organisms against stressful conditions. Hence, food availability may play a critical role in determining the resistance of calcifiers to OA. Here we show, based on a meta-analysis of existing experimental results assessing the role of food supply in the response of organisms to OA, that food supply consistently confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification.

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