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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND SYSTEMATICS, VOL 41
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 127-147Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120227
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acclimation; adaptation; calcification; carbon dioxide; climate change; synergistic stressors
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Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, poses a serious threat to marine organisms in tropical, open-ocean, coastal, deep-sea, and high-latitude sea ecosystems The diversity of taxonomic groups that precipitate calcium carbonate from seawater are at particularly high risk Here we review the rapidly expanding literature concerning the biological and ecological impacts of OA on calcification, using a cross-scale, process-oriented approach In comparison to calcification, we find that areas such as fertilization, early life-history stages, and interaction with synergistic stressors are understudied Although understanding the long-term consequences of OA are critical, available studies are largely short-term experiments that do not allow for tests of long-term acclimatization or adaptation Future research on the phenotypic plasticity of contemporary organisms and interpretations of performance in the context of current environmental heterogeneity of pCO(2) will greatly aid in our understanding of how organisms will respond to OA in the future
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