The question revolves around the concept of acidification of estuaries, as an ecological process which may be induced by human activities. In tropical conditions, high rainfall, heat and high primary production and specific geological settings may determine soil acidic conditions, which may control relatively low pH conditions in estuaries (i.e., in the lower tract of hydrogeographic basins). I am looking for the available literature and an overview/discussion on the state of art of this topic.
Hi Gianluca,
I cannot provide a straightforward answer, but I will make a suggestion nonetheless. Please have a look at these papers. probably you can find some useful info there:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140822/srep06164/full/srep06164.html
http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/10/1/2
Cheers,
Marcos
Gianluca, there has been a fair amount of research in this area in NSW Australia. And there was a recent CERF conference on this topic also: http://www.sgmeet.com/cerf2013/acidification_impacts.asp
Gianluca,
IN my old lab they are spending a lot of time with exactly these kind of questions. I would look at the Christopher Gobler’s Laboratory http://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/~gobler/ page at Stony Brook University and his recent publications. Also his PhD student Ryan Wallace has done a lot of work in Jamaica Bay, Long Island Sound and many of the Islands numerous barrier island estuaries with regards to pCO2, alkalinity and DIC measurements in addition to numerous other environmental parameters. Check out their lab page and publications and maybe shoot them an email.
Cheers and good luck.
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