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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 CO(2), low aragonite saturation state (Ω(a)) conditions that occur in Puget Sound and...

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Autores principales: Busch, D. Shallin, Maher, Michael, Thibodeau, Patricia, McElhany, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25162395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105884