The full set of papers is available here: http://www.biogeosciences.net/special_issue120.html
_______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Rau, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > In situ studies predict major changes to plankton community structure > and C cycling/storage as CO2 increases. As an aside, interesting to ponder > the politics/ethics of adding CO2 versus iron to ocean experiments at this > scale. > -Greg > > http://www.egu.eu/news/76/tiny-plankton-could-have-big-impact-on-climate/ > > *"As the climate changes and oceans’ acidity increases, tiny plankton > seem set to succeed. An international team of marine scientists has found > that the smallest plankton groups thrive under elevated carbon dioxide (CO > 2) levels. This could cause an imbalance in the food web as well as > decrease ocean CO2 uptake, an important regulator of global climate. The > results of the study, conducted off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, in 2010, > are now compiled in a special issue published in > Biogeosciences<http://www.biogeosciences.net/>, > a journal of the European Geosciences Union."* > * > * > “Time and [time] again the tiniest plankton benefits from the surplus CO2, > they produce more biomass and more organic carbon, and dimethyl sulphide > production and carbon export are decreasing,” > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
