Dissolution dominating calcification process in polar pteropods close to the point of aragonite undersaturation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Bednarsek, Nina ^a,b,c   Tarling, Geraint A ^b   Bakker, Dorothee C E ^c   Fielding, Sophie ^b   Feely, Richard A ^a  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; MINERAL;

ACIDIFICATION; ADULT; ANIMAL SHELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; LIMACINA HELICINA; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES HABITAT; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNDERSATURATION; ZOOPLANKTON; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASTROPOD; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PTEROPODA;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASTROPODA; MINERALS; ORGAN SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84907701320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109183     Document Type: Article

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