How calcification is impacted by ongoing environmental

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Sourced from the abstract and stated research gap and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2017 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 210 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Multiple carbonate system parameters independently govern shell formation in a marine mussel (2024) · Communications Earth & Environment · cited 17× · doi

  However, how calcification is impacted by ongoing environmental changes, including ocean acidification, remains incompletely understood due to complex relationships among the carbonate system variables hypothesized to drive calcification.

  generalabstract
  Keywords: calcification impacted ongoing environmental changes including ocean acidification remains incompletely understood complex relationships among carbonate
• Using ocean models to predict spatial and temporal variation in marine carbon isotopes (2017) · Ecosphere · cited 193× · doi

  Model predictions represent an initial hypothesis of spatial and temporal variation in carbon isotopic baselines in ocean areas where a few data are currently available, and provide the best currently available tool to estimate spatial and temporal variation in baseline isotopic compositions at ocean basin to global scales.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: spatial temporal variation isotopic ocean currently available model predictions represent initial hypothesis carbon baselines areas
• Inclusion of MyAMI-derived Mg ∕ Ca corrections to the marine carbonate system in the cGENIE.cookie Earth system model (v.0.91) (2026) · Geoscientific model development · doi

  Most current global carbon cycle models use empirical carbonate system dissociation constants fitted to laboratory experiments with present-day seawater major cation and anion concentrations - The reconstruction of past states of ocean geochemistry and carbon cycle across geologic events requires consideration of these effects

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: current global carbon cycle models use empirical carbonate
• Inclusion of MyAMI-derived Mg ∕ Ca corrections to the marine carbonate system in the cGENIE.cookie Earth system model (v.0.91) (2026) · Geoscientific model development · doi

  Further evaluation of the MyAMI-derived Mg/Ca correction scheme - Application of the cGENIE Earth system model to study the implications of changing ocean [Ca2+] and [Mg2+] on the global carbon cycle - Development of new schemes for correcting carbonate system equilibrium constants

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: further evaluation myami-derived correction scheme application cgenie earth

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