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“We Won’t See a Total Collapse in Food Chains, but We Will See Substitutions” 2008

May 28th 2008
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2008May28: On the biological effects of acidification on the US West coast.

2008May28: On the biological effects of acidification on the US West coast: “We won’t see a total collapse in food chains, but we will see substitutions. We may end up with food chains or food webs that are highly undesirable and not productive for the means that we use them today,” said Terrie Klinger, of the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs (CNN, 2008).

Reference: CNN. 2008. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/28/acid.seawater.ap/index.html

Image Description: Mourning Dove at Santa Teresa County Park, San Jose, California. Photo by Don DeBold, 2008Aug31. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Zenaida_macroura_-California-8.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.

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