Anyone concerned about pH and coral skeletons:
Biological control of aragonite formation in stony corals
I put a couple of good quotes on the blog, but the whole article is available so please read!
Here's another quote from the article's conclusion:
Biological control of aragonite formation in stony corals
I put a couple of good quotes on the blog, but the whole article is available so please read!
Here's another quote from the article's conclusion:
[Corals] survived the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which was associated with a very large increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (34). Indeed, scleractinian corals radiated in the Eocene (35).
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