SMEA Professor and Director Terrie Klinger co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Climate Change titled “Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat.” Biodiversity researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington and colleagues in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan and China, combined dozens of existing studies to paint a more nuanced picture of the impact of ocean acidification. Much of the research in the field focuses on the impact of ocean acidification on individual species, but the new study predicts how acidification will affect the living habitats such as corals, seagrasses and kelp forests that form the homes of other ocean species. Professor Klinger was quoted in UW Today saying “This work demonstrates the value of international collaborations to address a problem that’s global in scope and crosses boundaries between distinct habitats and ecosystems. We can begin to test predictions with data from different locations to better understand likely ecosystem responses to ocean acidification.” Read the full paper here: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3161.html. Read the UW Today article here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/11/21/ocean-acidification-study-offers-warnings-for-marine-life-habitats/.