Publication Date:
2011-04-09
Description:
Erba et al. (Reports, 23 July 2010, p. 428) attributed calcareous nannofossil morphology and assemblage changes across Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a to the effects of surface ocean acidification. We argue that the quality of carbonate preservation in these sequences, the unsupported assumptions of the biotic response to acidity, and the absence of independent proxy estimates for ocean pH or atmospheric pCO(2) render this conclusion questionable.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gibbs, Samantha J -- Robinson, Stuart A -- Bown, Paul R -- Jones, Tom Dunkley -- Henderiks, Jorijntje -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Apr 8;332(6026):175; author reply 175. doi: 10.1126/science.1199459.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. sxg@noc.soton.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21474738" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptation, Physiological
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Atmosphere
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*Calcification, Physiologic
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Calcium Carbonate/analysis/*chemistry
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Carbon Dioxide
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*Ecosystem
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*Fossils
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Geologic Sediments
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Oceans and Seas
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Oxygen
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*Plankton/cytology/physiology
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Seawater/*chemistry
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Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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