La adición de dióxido de carbono a las aguas de los arrecifes de coral suprime la calcificación neta de la comunidad

Rebecca Albright1,2, Yuichiro Takeshita1,3, David A Koweek1

  • 1Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Nature
|March 15, 2018
PubMed
Resumen

La acidificación de los océanos amenaza los arrecifes de coral al impedir la formación de esqueletos de coral. Este estudio revela que los estados de saturación de aragonita reducidos probablemente perjudicarán la función del ecosistema de arrecifes de coral, impactando la biodiversidad y las comunidades costeras.

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