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What un-kwn42 finds for “ocean acidification”
"Ocean acidification" is also known as:
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Ocean acidification effects on coral have focused on short-term stress responses. Only 3 papers examine multi-generational genetic adaptation to chronic pH changes. This gap is adjacent to active research in thermal adaptation.
Adjacent papers: Chen et al. 2023, Murray et al. 2022
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