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Consumers mediate the effects of experimental ocean acidification and warming on primary producers
Description: Ocean acidification can have profound impacts on marine organisms. However, we know little about the direct and indirect effects of ocean acidification and also how these effects interact with other features of environmental change such as warming and declining consumer pressure. In this study, scientists tested whether the presence of consumers (invertebrate mesograzers) influenced the interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming on benthic microalgae in a seagrass community mesocosm experiment. [Sources: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1303797110
Availability: Summary
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publish Date: 4/29/2013
Reading Level: Expert
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