describe how will ocean acidification affect marine organisms with calcified structures?
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Building Shells and Skeletons: Calcifying Organisms Increased acidity slows the growth of calcium carbonate structures, and under severe conditions, can dissolve structures faster than they form.
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The decreases in seawater carbonate ion concentration expected with ocean acidification can make building and maintaining calcium carbonate structures difficult for calcifying marine organisms like shellfish.
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Rising ocean temperatures and ocean acidification are radically altering marine aquatic ecosystems, while freshwater ecosystems are being impacted by changes in water temperature, water flow, and fish habitat loss. Climate change is modifying fish distribution and the productivity of marine and freshwater species.
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Ocean acidification will affect humans too! It will affect the food we eat since most of our shellfish requires calcium carbonate to form or to fortify their shells. ... The uncertain future of coral reefs due to ocean acidification is also a major concern.
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Ocean acidification will affect humans too! It will affect the food we eat since most of our shellfish requires calcium carbonate to form or to fortify their shells. ... The presence of healthy coral reefs is imperative to our survival because we rely on them for food, coastal protection, medicines and tourism dollars.
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Sudden rises in temperature and acidification can lead to the loss of marine habitats and species. Shifting ocean currents and warming waters are changing the distribution of fish stocks and altering the structure of ecosystems.
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Zooplankton abundances were reduced yet the community composition was unaffected by ocean acidification. All zooplankton taxa were reduced yet present under high-CO2 conditions suggesting that the zooplankton are at least able to survive under ocean acidification.
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carbonate to form shells. Ocean acidification causes less calcium carbonate to be available and this leads to the shelled-mollusks having weak shells. ... So they have a harder time making their shells.” This makes them vulnerable to predators and the crashing waves.
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However, as ocean acidification increases, available carbonate ions (CO32-) bond with excess hydrogen, resulting in fewer carbonate ions available for calcifying organisms to build and maintain their shells, skeletons, and other calcium carbonate structures.
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Decreases in seawater carbonate ions can make building and maintaining shells and other calcium carbonate structures difficult for calcifying marine organisms such as plankton. Changes to the survival, growth, and physiology of plankton can have impacts throughout the food web.
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Climate change due to human activity has a direct impact on marine species. It alters their abundance, diversity and distribution. Their feeding, development and breeding, as well as the relationships between species are affected. Rising temperatures lead to different behaviour patterns according to species.
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While fish don't have shells, they will still feel the effects of acidification. Because the surrounding water has a lower pH, a fish's cells often come into balance with the seawater by taking in carbonic acid. ... It can also slow fishes growth. Even slightly more acidic water may also affects fishes' minds.
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All phytoplankton and higher plants perform photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide is incorporated into biomass during cell growth. Ocean acidification (OA) has the potential to affect photosynthetic kinetics due to increasing seawater pCO2 levels and lower pH.
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Because of human-driven increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there is more CO2 dissolving into the ocean. The ocean's average pH is now around 8.1 , which is basic (or alkaline), but as the ocean continues to absorb more CO2, the pH decreases and the ocean becomes more acidic.
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Changes in water temperature can affect the environments where fish, shellfish, and other marine species live. As climate change causes the oceans to become warmer year-round, populations of some species may adapt by shifting toward cooler areas. ... Oceans are becoming more acidic.
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How does climate change affect oceans and marine life? ... Sudden rises in temperature and acidification can lead to the loss of marine habitats and species. Shifting ocean currents and warming waters are changing the distribution of fish stocks and altering the structure of ecosystems.
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Results: Laboratory studies indicate that making the water more acidic by lowering the pH did not influence lobster movement, but it did reduce the response of lobsters to bait, indicating that ocean acidification impacts a lobster's ability to detect bait.