Ocean Acidification - How will ongoing ocean acidification affect marine life? [Present]

Abstract

Ocean acidification, an expression coined in the early 2000s, describes changes in the chemistry of seawater generated by the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2). Among those changes is an increase in the concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon as well as a decrease in pH and the saturation state of calcium carbonate (Ω). Evidence for ocean acidification and its consequences for marine organisms and ecosystems have only recently begun to be investigated (Gattuso and Hansson 2011).