The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is founded on reef-building corals. Corals build their exoskeleton with aragonite, but ocean acidification is lowering the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Ωa). The downscaling of ocean acidification projections from global to GBR scales requires the set of region...

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Main Authors: Mongin, Mathieu, Baird, Mark E., Tilbrook, Bronte, Matear, Richard J., Lenton, Andrew, Herzfeld, Mike, Wild-Allen, Karen, Skerratt, Jenny, Margvelashvili, Nugzar, Robson, Barbara J., Duarte, Carlos M., Gustafsson, Malin S. M., Ralph, Peter J., Steven, Andrew D. L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766391/