User:M.teh01/Marine Biogenic Calcification

This article goes to lengths to explain the calcifying capacities and mechanisms of individual organisms, but fails to even briefly mention their variable responses to ocean acidification - a pertinent issue nowadays. In doing so, misinformation about their (absolutely) negative responses is spread.

A 2009 study by Justin B. Ries, Anne L. Cohen, and Daniel C. McCorckle elucidated not only acidification's potentially positive effects on species like crab and shrimp, but also the mechanisms that facilitate this unexpected response. However, accompanying investigations by Hannah L. Wood, John I. Spicer, and Stephen Widdicombe have shown that such responses only pertain to the short-term, as side effects like "muscle wastage" arise with time, ultimately leading to long-term complications.

Ocean acidification may increase calcification rates, but at what cost (2008)

- short-term attenuation of acidity brings rise to long-term complications like "muscle wastage".

Skeletal mineralogy in a high-CO2 world (2011)

- Different calcium carbonate polymorphs have different susceptibilities to ocean acidification

Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification (2009)

- 18 calcifiers studied: responses to ocean acidification were variable, negative and positive correlations were both observed.