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In a relatively short time, mankind makes now use of the carbon reservoirs which have taken hundreds of millions of years to accumulate. This drastic liberation of enormous carbon quantities has severe consequences on the earth’s atmosphere, oceans and biosphere. Studies on the behaviour of the oceans as carbon sources and sinks under different conditions are necessary to understand the future of the global marine environment. Because of the strongly varying salinity, climate and weather conditions, the Baltic Sea serves as a test laboratory for the studies of marine consequences of the carbon dioxide increase. CO2 reacts with water, leading into a decrease in pH. While the documentation of the pH change in the Baltic Sea monitoring data is obscured because of the use of fresh water scale, preliminary indications of the pH decrease can already be seen in restricted data sets. This pH change will, in the long run, have serious effects in biota.
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Perttilä, M. (2012). Marine Carbon Dioxide. In: Haapala, I. (eds) From the Earth's Core to Outer Space. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25550-2_11
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