Integrating the Effects of Ocean Acidification across Functional Scales on Tropical Coral Reefs
Integrating the Effects of Ocean Acidification across Functional Scales on Tropical Coral Reefs
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biw023
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发表时间：
2016-05-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Carpenter, Robert C.
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作者：
Edmunds, Peter J.;Comeau, Steeve;Carpenter, Robert C.
面对海洋酸化和变暖，人们对珊瑚礁的未来感到担忧，尽管对这些现象的研究进展迅速，但人们的努力集中在拼图的碎片上，而不是将它们整合起来评估生态系统一级的影响。外地现在准备开始这项任务，但在取得进展之前，必须首先克服信息差距。许多这些差距集中在细胞，生物体，种群，社区和生态系统层面的钙化，珊瑚礁对海洋酸化的反应相互依存的过程非常复杂，其影响从细胞扩展到生态系统，从微米扩展到公里。现有的生态理论为克服这些困难提供了一个重要的和基本上尚未开发的资源，它们为综合海洋酸化对珊瑚礁的各种影响提供了巨大的潜力。
There are concerns about the future of coral reefs in the face of ocean acidification and warming, and although studies of these phenomena have advanced quickly, efforts have focused on pieces of the puzzle rather than integrating them to evaluate ecosystem-level effects. The field is now poised to begin this task, but there are information gaps that first must be overcome before progress can be made. Many of these gaps focus on calcification at the levels of cells, organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystem, and their closure will be made difficult by the complexity of the interdependent processes by which coral reefs respond to ocean acidification, with effects scaling from cells to ecosystems and from microns to kilometers. Existing ecological theories provide an important and largely untapped resource for overcoming these difficulties, and they offer great potential for integrating the effects of ocean acidification across scales on coral reefs.