La surpêche dans les eaux du Sénégal a reçu beaucoup d’attention, mais des menaces tout aussi importantes pèsent également sur les ressources marines dont les effets pervers peuvent s’avérer irréversibles pour nos sociétés. L’acidification des océans et les autres problèmes liés au dioxyde de carbone (CO2) représentent en effet un risque pour la biodiversité marine, […]
University of Miami students and researchers are blogging during a month-long expedition in the Gulf of Mexico to study ocean acidification. An interdisciplinary and international team of scientists and students set sail aboard the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ship Ronald H. Brown on Tuesday, July 18 for a 36-day expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and account for 97 percent of its water. They play a vital role in the natural carbon cycle and provides a home for over one million species of plants and animals, with another estimated nine million living in the depths left unexplored by humans. Billions of people rely on the ocean’s rich diversity […]
Global warming and ocean acidification are increasingly affecting coastal ecosystems, with impacts that vary regionally depending upon local biogeography. Ocean acidification drives shifts in seaweed community dominance that depend on interactions with other factors such as light and nutrients. In this study, we investigated the photophysiological responses in the brown macroalgae species Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss with […]
Marine and estuarine ecosystems are highly productive areas that often act as a final sink for several pollutants, such as cadmium. Environmental conditions in these habitats can affect metal speciation, as well as its uptake and depuration by living organisms. The aim of this study was to assess cadmium uptake and depuration rates in the […]
Things You Should Know About Ocean Acidification (2014) [27 MB]
