As the world's largest reservoir of exchangeable carbon on millennial timescales, the oceans play a dominant role in global change. Indeed, the oceans currently act as a major sink for anthropogenic carbon (1), partially moderating increases in atmospheric CO_2 at the expense of a more acidic ocean. One of the great challenges for the next century is understanding how this shift in seawater chemistry will affect marine systems. Serving as a vivid microcosm for the ocean as whole, coral reefs display the beauty, diversity, and complexity of the ocean, while also exhibiting the ocean's sensitivity to environmental perturbations.
Alexander C. Gagnon
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Earth Sciences Division and Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 and School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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