Los arrecifes de coral pasarán a la disolución neta antes de fin de siglo

Bradley D Eyre1, Tyler Cyronak2, Patrick Drupp3

  • 1Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. bradley.eyre@scu.edu.au.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 24, 2018
PubMed
Resumen

La acidificación del océano acelera la disolución de los sedimentos de arrecife de carbonato de calcio (CaCO3), un proceso 10 veces más sensible que la calcificación del coral. Este cambio hacia la disolución neta amenaza a los arrecifes de coral a nivel mundial para el año 2050.

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