ABSTRACT

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

1 Área Oceanografía Química, Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (IADO – CONICET / UNS). C.C. 804, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina.