Respuesta a Comentario sobre "Los efectos complejos de la acidificación del océano en el prominente cianobacterium

Dalin Shi1, Rong Shen2, Sven A Kranz3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, PR China. dshi@xmu.edu.cn.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 16, 2017
PubMed
Resumen

Un alto nivel de CO2 tiene un impacto negativo en el crecimiento de Trichodesmium debido a la disminución del pH, contrariamente a los hallazgos anteriores. Las condiciones de crecimiento subóptimas pueden explicar los resultados contradictorios con respecto a los efectos de la acidificación del océano en esta cianobacterium.

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