The study of the biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute was conducted in the framework of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is intended to provide an overview of the current level of scientific knowledge on ocean acidification. “For us, it was important not only to present the research results of recent years but to assess which impacts climate change will have on species,” says Pörtner.
It is the first IPCC report to extensively document the consequences of climate change on the ecosystems of the oceans. The report will be published at the end of March 2014 and is prepared by the so-called second working group, which assesses how climate change impacts socio-economic and ecological systems.
Check the following link to read/download the Full Study – “Sensitivities of Extant Animal Taxa to Ocean Acidification”:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1982.html
Source: AWI.
