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With increasing atmospheric pCO2, a decrease in global surface ocean pH of between 0.4 to 0.8 units is predicted due to oceanic CO2 uptake [ 1, 2].
The oceans get more acidic, with the surface ocean pH decreasing by 15-17%.
Ocean acidification is much greater, with surface ocean pH decreasing up to 62%.
Ocean acidification accelerates hugely, with surface ocean pH decreasing up to 109%.
Over the past 220 years, the average mass of a coccolithophore increased 40percentt as ocean pH levels dropped.
Unless we reduce carbon dioxide emissions, ocean pH will change by 70 percent by 2050.
So Ilsa B. Kuffner of the United States Geological Survey in St . Petersburg Fla., and colleagues set out to see whether lower ocean pH would affect them.
Deep sea corals also show very different tolerance to ocean pH levels and lower aragonite saturate states than shallow corals.
We still don't know the lethal and sublethal tolerances of deep sea stony corals to changing ocean pH levels.
The University of Miami study, published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, found that falling ocean pH, caused by acidification, is overwhelming the spring and summer growth of corals, meaning that the Florida reefs are being pushed into structural decline.
Marine organisms use many structurally similar chemicals for predator detection, food location and mate tracking, all of which are likely to be affected by ocean pH in comparable ways.
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