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| Provedor de dados: |
RChHN
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| País: |
Chile
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Evaluation of a semi-automatic system for long-term seawater carbonate chemistry manipulation
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| Autores: |
TORRES,RODRIGO
MANRIQUEZ,PATRICIO H
DUARTE,CRISTIAN
NAVARRO,JORGE M
LAGOS,NELSON A
VARGAS,CRISTIAN A
LARDIES,MARCO A
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| Data: |
2013-12-01
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| Ano: |
2013
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| Palavras-chave: |
Carbonate chemistry manipulation
Ocean acidification
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| Resumo: |
The assessment of the effects of Ocean Acidification (OA) on marine life has received increasing attention in recent marine research. On a mesocosmic scale, the CO2 levels in seawater can be manipulated to evaluate experimentally the consequences of OA on marine organisms (vertebrates and invertebrates). An ideal manipulation of carbonate chemistry should mimic exactly the changes to carbonate chemistry, which will occur in years to come. Although some methods have been described in the literature, here we describe in detail a simple, robust and inexpensive system to produce CO2-enriched seawater by bubbling the seawater with air-CO2 mixtures. The system uses mass flow controllers (MFC) to blend atmospheric air with pure CO2 to produce two pCO2 levels. The air-CO2 mixtures are delivered continuously to seawater equilibration reservoirs, and simultaneously to an infrared CO2 analyser to verify CO2 levels in the air-CO2 mixture delivered to the equilibration tanks. We monitored both pH and total alkalinity in the equilibration reservoirs over a period of one year in order to document the long-term performance of this system for simulating the future carbonate chemistry of seawater in a coastal laboratory. System performance was sufficient to maintain three contrasting (e.g., 397, 709 and 1032 matm) and relatively constant (the coefficient of variability was 11 %, 9 % and 9 % respectively) seawater pCO2 during a year-long monitoring.
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Journal article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2013000400006
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| Editor: |
Sociedad de Biología de Chile
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Revista chilena de historia natural v.86 n.4 2013
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