Ocean acidification / edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Lina Hansson

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Foreword.. Preface.. List of abbreviations.. List of contributors.. 1 Ocean Acidification: Background and History,, 2 Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry.. 3 Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry.. 4 Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View.. 5 Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms.. 6 Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems.. 7 Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems.. 8 Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms.. 9 Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna.. 10 Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.. 11 Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically-Active Trace Gases.. 12 Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System.. 13 The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society.. 14 Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections.. 15 Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives.. Index

The ocean helps moderate climate change thanks to its considerable capacity to store CO2, through the combined actions of ocean physics, chemistry, and biology. This storage capacity limits the amount of human-released CO2 remaining in the atmosphere. As CO2 reacts with seawater, it generates dramatic changes in carbonate chemistry, including decreases in pH and carbonate ions and an increase in bicarbonate ions. The consequences of this overall process, known as "ocean acidification", are raising concerns for the biological, ecological, and biogeochemical health of the world's oceans, as well as for the potential societal implications. This research level text is the first to synthesize the very latest understanding of the consequences of ocean acidification, with the intention of informing both future research agendas and marine management policy. A prestigious list of authors has been assembled, among them the coordinators of major national and international projects on ocean acidification. eng