Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content

1. Front Matter

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2. Climate Variability in the North-Western Iberian Peninsula During the Last Deglaciation

   • Filipa Naughton, Teresa Drago, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Maria Conceição Freitas

   Pages 1-22

3. Impact of Oporto Metropolitan Area Carbon Dioxide Emissions over the Adjacent Coastal Zone

   • Rogério Carvalho, Nelson Barros, Pedro Duarte

   Pages 23-46

4. Present Day Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Coastal Ocean and Possible Feedbacks Under Global Change

   • Alberto V. Borges

   Pages 47-77

5. Aspects of Phytoplankton Communities Response to Climate Changes

   • Maria da Graça Cabeçadas, Maria José Brogueira, Maria Leonor Cabeçadas, Ana Paula Oliveira, Marta Cristina Nogueira

   Pages 79-94

6. pH Decrease and Effects on the Chemistry of Seawater

   • Juana Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Melchor González-Dávila

   Pages 95-114

7. Effects of Sediment Acidification on the Bioaccumulation of Zn in R. Philippinarum

   • Inmaculada Riba, Enrique García-Luque, Judit Kalman, Julián Blasco, Carlos Vale

   Pages 115-132

8. Contaminant Cycling Under Climate Change: Evidences and Scenarios

   • Carlos Vale, João Canário, Miguel Caetano, Laurier Poissant, Ana Maria Ferreira

   Pages 133-156

9. The Use of Weight of Evidence for Environmental Quality Assessment in Sediments Above Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Storage of Carbon Dioxide

   • Tomás-Ángel DelValls Casillas, Diana Fernández de la Reguera Tayá, Maria Inmaculada Riba López, Jesus María Forja Pajares

   Pages 157-171

10. Back Matter

    Pages 173-176

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Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content, presents an interdisciplinary overview of the role of the oceans as a carbon sink and its relation with pH increasing trends and climate change. This volume discusses topics such as: climate variability during the last deglaciation, based on a high-resolution pollen analysis; the potential impact of CO2 from large metropolitan areas over the adjacent coastal zones and the importance of having high resolution atmospheric CO2 data to estimate accurately air-sea CO2 exchanges; present- day CO2 fluxes in the coastal ocean and their potential feedbacks under global climate change; phytoplankton community responses to climate change with emphasis on decreasing pH trends in sea water and its ecological effects; pH decrease and its effects on sea-water chemistry from a ten year time-series; the effect of acidification on metal bioaccumulation; the effects of increasing temperatures and acidification on contaminant dynamics and availability to biota; the prevention of potential environmental impacts related to the geological sequestration of CO2. The book provides an updated synthesis of current concerns related to global change trends in the oceans with a strong emphasis on acidification. The content draws attention to the importance of dealing with observed global change trends and their effects upon the oceans using an interdisciplinary approach due to their complexity and interlinks between different areas of knowledge.

• Acidification
• Atmosphere
• Carbon dioxide
• Climate change
• Ocean

• Global Change, Energy, Environment and B, R & D Unit (CIAGEB), Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal

  Pedro Duarte

• Campus de Tafira, Department of Chemistry, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

  J. Magdalena Santana-Casiano

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