Description: Ongoing rapid changes in ocean chemistry will have a severe impact on marine taxa that mineralize calcium carbonate skeletons. Potential consequences for species distribution, abundances and diversity and their imprint in food chains and ecosystems call for more studies of the short and long term impacts of ocean acidification. Bryozoans have been overlooked in this respect even though they play an important role in benthic temperate ecosystems. We will study the effects of raised acidification on the calcification of Flustra foliacaea from the North and Baltic Seas in order to use it further as an indicator of environmental change in these basins.
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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Calciumcarbonat ? Weiterverwendung ? Benthos ? Meereskunde ? Marines Ökosystem ? Meereschemie ? Ozeanversauerung ? Artenvielfalt ? Hydrobiologie ? Studie ? Gewässerorganismen ? Meeresgewässer ? Ökosystemforschung ? Wirkung ? Nahrungskette ? Ökosystem ? Umweltveränderung ? Versauerung ? Biodiversität ? Nordsee ? Ostsee ? Ozean ?
Region: Schleswig-Holstein
Bounding boxes: 9.75° .. 9.75° x 54.2° .. 54.2°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2009-11-01 - 2011-05-31
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