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Ideas and perspectives: When ocean acidification experiments are not the same, repeatability is not tested
Phillip Williamson
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School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
NR4 7TJ, UK
Hans-Otto Pörtner
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 27515
Bremerhaven, Germany
Steve Widdicombe
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Laboratoire d'Océanographie, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations,
75006 Paris, France
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Chloe Carbonne, Steeve Comeau, Phoebe T. W. Chan, Keyla Plichon, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, and Núria Teixidó
Biogeosciences, 19, 4767–4777, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4767-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4767-2022, 2022
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The reliability of ocean acidification research was challenged in early 2020 when a high-profile paper failed to corroborate previously observed impacts of high CO2 on the behaviour of coral reef fish. We now know the reason why: the
replicatedstudies differed in many ways. Open-minded and collaborative assessment of all research results, both negative and positive, remains the best way to develop process-based understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms.
The reliability of ocean acidification research was challenged in early 2020 when a high-profile...
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