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Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-671-2024
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Are physiological and ecosystem-level tipping points caused by ocean acidification? A critical evaluation

Christopher E. Cornwall, Steeve Comeau, and Ben P. Harvey

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Ocean acidification will cause profound shifts in many marine ecosystems by impairing the ability of calcareous taxa to grow and by influencing the photophysiology of many others. Physiological tipping points will likely be reached in the next 20 years. Small changes in organism physiology result in larger ecological tipping points being crossed. Ecosystems will shift from having higher abundances of calcifying taxa and towards increased abundances of non-calcareous species under elevated CO2.
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