Thursday 2 October 2014

Sensitive youngsters

WATER WORLD
Sensitive youngsters
Kiel, Germany (SPX) Oct 02, 2014 - Young sea stars from the Baltic Sea suffer more from the effects of ocean acidification than adults. In a laboratory experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel showed that younger animals already eat less and grow more slowly at only slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentrations. Their results are now published in the journal "Marine Ecology Progress Series". ... more


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