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Calcification generates protons for nutrient and bicarbonate uptake
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Abstract The biosphere's great carbonate deposits, from caliche soils to deep-sea carbonate oozes, precipitate largely as by-products of autotrophic nutrient acquisition physiologies. Protons constitute the critical link: Calcification generates protons, which plants and photosynthetic symbioses use to assimilate bicarbonate and nutrients. A calcium ATPase-based “trans” mechanism underlies most biological calcification. This permits high calcium carbonate supersaturations and rapid carbonate precipitation. The competitive advantages of calcification become especially apparent in light and nutrient-deficient alkaline environments. Calcareous plants often dominate the lower euphotic zone in both the benthos and the plankton. Geographically and seasonally, massive calcification concentrates in nutrient-deficient environments including alkaline soils, coral reefs, cyanobacterial mats and coccolithophorid blooms. Structural and defensive uses for calcareous skeletons are sometimes overrated.
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- Authors
- McConnaughey, T. A., & Whelan, J. F.
- Venue
- Earth-Science Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1997-03
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 95-117
- ISSN
- 0012-8252 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2085968620
- Cited by
- 481
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 7.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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