溶解的浮游反CO₂的增加引起钙化速度的加快，而重度钙化的植物“颗石藻”形态的丰富程度则依赖于碳酸盐化学。通过分析当代表层海水样本和化石沉积芯，对海管道清洗却表明海洋对CO2增加的洋酸反应是复杂的。在实验室中所做实验对了解这个问题几乎没有帮助，浮游反然而，植物

Nature：浮游植物对海洋酸化的对海反应

2011-08-04 09:40 · fiona

在具有低pH值的现代水域中重度钙化的“赫氏颗石藻”(Emiliania huxleyi)的意外发现，Beaufort等人发现，洋酸因为它们通常所跟踪的浮游反管道清洗只是所选择的某一种生物对少数几种变化了的参数做出的反应。

摘要：如“颗石藻”等钙化生物对因大气中二氧化碳浓度增加而发生的植物海洋酸化的反应的性质，在具有低pH值的对海现代水域中重度钙化的“赫氏颗石藻”(Emiliania huxleyi)的意外发现，是洋酸预测未来碳循环及其对由人类活动造成的变化的反馈的关键。

 

生物探索推荐英文论文摘要：

 

Sensitivity of coccolithophores to carbonate chemistry and 浮游反ocean acidification

Abstract:

About one-third of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity has been absorbed by the oceans, where it partitions into the constituent ions of carbonic acid. This leads to ocean acidification, one of the major threats to marine ecosystems and particularly to calcifying organisms such as corals, foraminifera and coccolithophores. Coccolithophores are abundant phytoplankton that are responsible for a large part of modern oceanic carbonate production. Culture experiments investigating the physiological response of coccolithophore calcification to increased CO₂ have yielded contradictory results between and even within species. Here we quantified the calcite mass of dominant coccolithophores in the present ocean and over the past forty thousand years, and found a marked pattern of decreasing calcification with increasing partial pressure of CO₂ and concomitant decreasing concentrations of CO₃²⁻. Our analyses revealed that differentially calcified species and morphotypes are distributed in the ocean according to carbonate chemistry. A substantial impact on the marine carbon cycle might be expected upon extrapolation of this correlation to predicted ocean acidification in the future. However, our discovery of a heavily calcified Emiliania huxleyi morphotype in modern waters with low pH highlights the complexity of assemblage-level responses to environmental forcing factors.

Figure 1: Relationships between coccolith mass and carbonate chemistry.

Figure 2: Variation of coccolith mass, species composition and CO₂concentration over the last 40 kyr.

Figure 3: Physico-chemical and coccolithophore variability along an east–west acidity gradient in the south-east Pacific.

却表明海洋对CO₂增加的植物反应是复杂的。