Abstract:Anthropogenic CO 2 emissions are projected to lower the pH of the open ocean by 0.2 to 0.3 units over the next century. Laboratory experiments show that different phytoplankton taxa exhibit a wide variety of responses, with some strains having higher fitness under projected future conditions, and others being negatively impacted. Previous studies have suggested that Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, the numerically dominant picophytoplankton in the oceans, have very different responses to elevated CO 2 that m… Show more
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