Federica Ragazzola is a researcher at Stazione Zoologica, Genova.
In this seminarm she will talk about a project that focuses on the dissolution dynamics of rhodolith beds under various abiotic and biotic factors.
The long-standing assumption that organisms precipitating high-magnesium calcite are inherently more vulnerable to ocean acidification, due to the higher solubility of this polymorph relative to aragonite and calcite, demands critical re-evaluation. Emerging evidence suggests that carbonate polymorph alone is not a sufficient predictor of dissolution behavior.
