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Independent GEOMAR coverage of an earlier 33-day mesocosm study reports stable plankton communities under moderate CO2-equilibrated alkalinity enhancement while explicitly limiting generalization to other marine environments and stronger perturbations. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: How do marine food webs respond to increasing alkalinity? · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:41407fa6e08b7da95efc00dc8c0f845b8033d6ecdc27c1b741c6f79578cbbd82

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Overall, researchers found that the plankton communities remained stable and that the zooplankton largely tolerated the moderate chemical changes associated with CO2-equilibrated OAE. During the experiment, the nutritional quality of the particulate matter on which zooplankton can feed potentially deteriorated, but this did not seem to affect the consumers. ... this does not say anything about how it will affect other marine environments, nor about the safety of other, technically more feasible forms of OAE that cause greater changes to seawater chemistry.

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