Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
CHAPTER 1
Potential Effects of Climate
Changes on the Marine
Ecosystem Stability
Assessment of the Water Quality
Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio,
1,2,3,
* Natalia Sol Buzzi,
1,4,a
Matías Nicolás Tartara,
1,b
Carla Vanesa Spetter,
1,5,c
and
Pia Simonetti
1,d
Introduction
A huge amount of carbon is being annually released into the Earth's
atmosphere, reaching levels of gigatonnes (Jongen et al. 2011, Zhang et al.
2012). These accumulative post-industrial emissions have caused different
effects, including increasing global temperature, rising sea level, changes
