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Ocean Acidification and Oceanic Carbon Cycling

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Global Environmental Change

Part of the book series: Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution ((EGEP,volume 1))

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The concentration of atmospheric CO2 is increasing due to emissions from burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use. Part of this “anthropogenic CO2” invades the oceans causing a decrease of seawater pH; this process is called “ocean acidification.” The lowered pH, but also the concomitant changes in other properties of the carbonate system, affects marine life and the cycling of carbon in the ocean.

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow & Björn Rost

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  1. Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow
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Correspondence to Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow .

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  1. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Bill Freedman

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Wolf-Gladrow, D.A., Rost, B. (2014). Ocean Acidification and Oceanic Carbon Cycling. In: Freedman, B. (eds) Global Environmental Change. Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_79

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