Shell condition and survival of Puget Sound pteropods are impaired by ocean acidification conditions.

We tested whether the thecosome pteropod Limacina helicina from Puget Sound, an urbanized estuary in the northwest continental US, experiences shell dissolution and altered mortality rates when exposed to the high CO2, low aragonite saturation state (Ωa) conditions that occur in Puget Sound and the...

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Main Authors: D Shallin Busch, Michael Maher, Patricia Thibodeau, Paul McElhany
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4146564?pdf=render