Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1515-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1515-2018
Research article
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14 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2018

Over-calcified forms of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in high-CO2 waters are not preadapted to ocean acidification

Peter von Dassow, Francisco Díaz-Rosas, El Mahdi Bendif, Juan-Diego Gaitán-Espitia, Daniella Mella-Flores, Sebastian Rokitta, Uwe John, and Rodrigo Torres

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Coccolithophores are microalgae which produce much of the calcium carbonate in the ocean, important to making organic carbon sink to great depths, and they may be negatively affected by the decline in ocean pH as CO2 rises. Can these important microbes adapt? This study found that coccolithophores inhabiting waters naturally low in pH may have already reached the limit of their ability to adapt. This suggests that how the ocean's biota sequester carbon will be strongly affected in the future.
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