Biological effects of OCA

When Atlantic herring eggs were fertilized, incubated, and hatched in ocean acidification conditions, there was no effect on embryo development or hatch rate. There was also no clear [...]

Studies in Italy and in the Chesapeake Bay, USA, found that seagrasses lost phenolics, which protect against grazing and disease, when living in high CO2/low pH conditions. The findings [...]

In ocean acidification conditions (pH 7.7) embryos of an intertidal barnacle developed more slowly. Survival of adult barnacles dropped by 22 percent, and the mineral structure of [...]

Bacterial infection of blue mussels increased under ocean acidification conditions. (Laboratory study)

 Ocean acidification did not have a major impact at the cellular level in the gill epithelia of green crabs. (Laboratory study)

In the early life stages of a coralline alga, mortality and growth abnormalities increased with small changes in pH. However, rate of growth remained similar, potentially by re-directing [...]

Author(s): Helen S. Findlay, Michael A. Kendall, John I. Spicer & Stephen Widdicombe  Findlay, H.S. 2010b Link:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-009-1356-1 [...]

When larvae of blue mussels were kept in ocean acidification conditions predicted for 2100 (pH 7.6) there was no marked effect on fertilization, development, [...]

The release of dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) by marine algae has major impacts on the global sulphur cycle and may influence local climate through the formation of dimethylsulphide (DMS). [...]

Survival of pteropods in Puget Sound, Washington, may not be greatly affected by present ocean pH levels and those projected for the near future, although their shells may be more prone to [...]