A Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment experiment that manipulates seawater pH on a coral reef flat shows that the level of ocean acidification at which net dissolution of corals occurs may arrive much sooner than expected.
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Stark, J.S., Langdon, C. Coral reef pH altered in situ. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1380–1381 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1000-5
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