Acceleration of modern acidification in the South China Sea driven by anthropogenic CO2

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yi ^a,b   Peng, Zicheng ^a   Zhou, Renjun ^a   Song, Shaohua ^b   Liu, Weiguo ^b   You, Chen Feng ^c   Lin, Yen Po ^c   Yu, Kefu ^d   Wu, Chung Che ^e   Wei, Gangjian ^f   Xie, Luhua ^f   Burr, George S ^e   Shen, Chuan Chou ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PH; PROCEDURES; SEA; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHINA; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84902119209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05148     Document Type: Article

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