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Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean

Type
Literature
Publication
Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean. University of Chicago. 2016.
Year Published
2016
Organization
University of Chicago
Description

Increasing ocean acidity from climate change is one cause of thinning California mussel shells, according to a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. University of Chicago biologists compared the thickness of modern mussel shells with those collected in the past, some thousands of years ago by Native Americans, and found that the old shells were 27-94% thicker.