Communications Earth & Environment (Jul 2022)

Shell thickness of Nucella lapillus in the North Sea increased over the last 130 years despite ocean acidification

  • Dennis Mayk,
  • Lloyd S. Peck,
  • Thierry Backeljau,
  • Elizabeth M. Harper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00486-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Marine gastropod shells have thickened over the past 130 years on the southern North Sea coast as local environmental conditions counteracted global ocean acidification, suggest analyses of a 130-year record of dog whelk morphology.