Past constraints on the vulnerability of marine calcifiers to massive carbon dioxide release

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 196-200

  Ridgwell, Andy ^a   Schmidt, Daniela N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BENTHOS; BIOACTIVITY; CALCIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCENE; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

EID: 77950524077     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo755     Document Type: Article

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