SEA CHANGE: A New Science Paper Emphasizing the Effects of Acidification on Oceans Health and Possib

Ecosystems are highly delicate and interlinked living beings, and oceans and seas are not spared by various lethal or injuring causes such as pollution, overfishing, illegal traffic, climate change (temperature rising at the sea level or at the TOA - Top Of the Atmosphere of planet Earth). At least since the KYOTO Protocal 25 years before, sensible ecosystems such as krill - small crustaceans - at the bottom of the food supply chain were fairly well mediatized. So is the case of ocean acidfication, regretfully less mediatized, but of a great importance.

In fact, ocean acidification is one of the major induced effects on the ocean health that could collapse the sea ecology as a whole. As a hint, interactions between the sea surface and the atmosphere, the salinity content of the oceans, and the presence of the Great Ocean Belt among others, all participate in the decrease of the marine water quality. Consequently, an indirect trophic cascade could occur, including the loss of the Sharks population.

In the well-known scientific magazine Nature, a new paper was issued about the effect(s) of ocean acidification.

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Author: Sarah DeWeerdt

Nature 550, S54–S58 (12 October 2017)

DOI doi:10.1038/550S54a

Published online: 11 October 2017

URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/550S54a