I'm interested to know how the changes in carbon speciation affects the benthic productivity of marine ecosystems. In connection to this I would like to know the relationship between the partial pressure of atm.co2, pH and carbon speciation. Kindly give me the links of related articles on this topic.
Atmospheric pCO2 are increasing due to the anthropogenic activity. This increase in the atmospheric pCO2 yield in an increase in the ocean surface pCO2 as well. As you can see in the link more CO2 concentration drives to more acid seawater that could finally affect to a widespread live organism which use chemical processes like calcification to build structures.
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An interesting paper ;)
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