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Landmark global scale study reveals potential future impact of Ocean Acidification on species ...
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/landmark-global-scale-study-reveals-potential-future-impact-of-ocean-acidification-on-species-distribution[font face=Serif][font size=5]Landmark global scale study reveals potential future impact of Ocean Acidification on species’ distribution[/font]
[font size=4]How research on a diminutive sea snail has resulted in major new findings[/font]
Mr Andrew Merrington
Senior Media & Communications Officer
9 January 2017
[font size=3]Ocean Acidification and the extent to which marine species are able to deal with low pH levels in the Earth’s seas, could have a significant influence on shifting the distribution of marine animals in response to climate warming.
This is one the findings of a landmark new study that has taken a first-ever global scale integrative approach to the topic, bringing together population genetics, growth, shell mineralogy and metabolic data for marine snails found in the North Atlantic.
Published in this month’s Nature Communications, the report, Regional adaptation defines sensitivity to future ocean acidification, reveals that populations at the northern and southern range edges are the most sensitive to ocean acidification, and the least likely to be able deal with significant implications for biogeography and diversity.
Scientists at the University of Quebec in Rimouski (UQAR), Canada, the University of Plymouth, the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the University of Birmingham, launched the project in 2010 with funding from a number of sources, including the Natural Environment Research Council’s UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme.
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http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13994[font size=4]How research on a diminutive sea snail has resulted in major new findings[/font]
Mr Andrew Merrington
Senior Media & Communications Officer
9 January 2017
[font size=3]Ocean Acidification and the extent to which marine species are able to deal with low pH levels in the Earth’s seas, could have a significant influence on shifting the distribution of marine animals in response to climate warming.
This is one the findings of a landmark new study that has taken a first-ever global scale integrative approach to the topic, bringing together population genetics, growth, shell mineralogy and metabolic data for marine snails found in the North Atlantic.
Published in this month’s Nature Communications, the report, Regional adaptation defines sensitivity to future ocean acidification, reveals that populations at the northern and southern range edges are the most sensitive to ocean acidification, and the least likely to be able deal with significant implications for biogeography and diversity.
Scientists at the University of Quebec in Rimouski (UQAR), Canada, the University of Plymouth, the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the University of Birmingham, launched the project in 2010 with funding from a number of sources, including the Natural Environment Research Council’s UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme.
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