[Coral-List] Effects of increased acidification and temperature on coral calcification

Charles Booth booth at easternct.edu
Mon Jul 10 12:49:34 EDT 2006


Dr. Stephen C. Jameson inquired about the interactive effects of ocean
acidification and warming of the oceans on coral calcification.  Last year¹s
Royal Society (UK) report, Ocean Acidification Due to Increasing Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide ( http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/document.asp?id=3249 ) addresses
this in section 4.2.1, pages 25-26. According to this report, tropical coral
reefs (and probably cold water coral reefs) will be negatively impacted.

Chuck Booth
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Dr. Charles E. Booth
Dept. of Biology
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT  06226

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