The geological record of ocean acidification

Hoenisch B, Ridgwell A, Schmidt DN, Thomas E, Gibbs SJ, Sluijs A, Zeebe R, Kump L, Martindale RC, Greene SE, Kießling W, Ries J, Zachos JC, Royer DL, Barker S, Marchitto TM, Moyer R, Pelejero C, Ziveri P, Foster GL, Williams B (2012)

Publication Type: Journal article, Review article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Book Volume: 335

Pages Range: 1058-1063

DOI: 10.1126/science.1208277

Abstract

Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however, assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations are limited by their reduced ecologic complexity and sample period, respectively. In contrast, the geological record contains long-term evidence for a variety of global environmental perturbations, including ocean acidification plus their associated biotic responses. We review events exhibiting evidence for elevated atmospheric CO2, global warming, and ocean acidification over the past ∼300 million years of Earth's history, some with contemporaneous extinction or evolutionary turnover among marine calcifiers. Although similarities exist, no past event perfectly parallels future projections in terms of disrupting the balance of ocean carbonate chemistry - a consequence of the unprecedented rapidity of CO 2 release currently taking place.

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Pitzer College United States (USA) (US) University of Southampton United Kingdom (GB) Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Spain (ES) Spanish National Research Council / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Spain (ES) University of South Florida (USF) United States (USA) (US) University of Colorado System United States (USA) (US) Cardiff University United Kingdom (GB) Wesleyan University United States (USA) (US) University of California Santa Cruz United States (USA) (US) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States (USA) (US) University of Bristol United Kingdom (GB) University of Southern California (USC) United States (USA) (US) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States (USA) (US) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa United States (USA) (US) Universiteit Utrecht (UU) / Utrecht University Netherlands (NL) Yale University United States (USA) (US) Columbia University United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Hoenisch, B., Ridgwell, A., Schmidt, D.N., Thomas, E., Gibbs, S.J., Sluijs, A.,... Williams, B. (2012). The geological record of ocean acidification. Science, 335, 1058-1063. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1208277

MLA:

Hoenisch, Baerbel, et al. "The geological record of ocean acidification." Science 335 (2012): 1058-1063.

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