User:Willmfair/sandbox

Introduction
Hello, this is my user sandbox. I'll be messing around with formatting, citations, and general Wikipedia code in order to get used to the website. If I wanted to link to the page about Redfield Ratios, I would type it like: Redfield ratio. If I wished to link to a specific part of that Wikipedia page, it would look like this: Explanation.

Citation Practice: One effect of ocean acidification is a net decrease in coral reef community calcification.

Cultural eutrophication
(experimenting with wiki sourcing/citation/and formatting)

Cultural Eutrophication is the process that speeds up natural eutrophication because of human activity. Due to clearing of land and building of towns and cities, land runoff is accelerated and more nutrients such as phosphates and nitrate are supplied to lakes and rivers, and then to coastal estuaries and bays. Extra nutrients are also supplied by treatment plants, golf courses, fertilizers, farms, as well as untreated sewage in many countries.

Finding a mate in the three-dimensional space of open water is challenging. Some copepod females solve the problem by emitting pheromones, which leave a trail in the water that the male can follow. . Copepods experience a low Reynolds number and therefore a high relative viscosity. One foraging strategy involves chemical detection of sinking marine snow aggregates and taking advantage of nearby low-pressure gradients to swim quickly towards food sources.

High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll Ocean Regions
(This part of my sandbox is to coarsely outline the ideas for contributing to the High-Nutrient, low-chlorophyll page.)

Currently this article speaks to various theories regarding the existence of HNLC oceanic regions. A cogent discussion of HNLC areas should also include details about the global distributions, ecological dynamics, and global impacts on climate. Generally, HNLC areas are lacking in some sort of limiting nutrient, such as trace metals (eg. iron). However, iron fertilization is thoroughly discussed on Wikipedia, and while this is an interesting topic to focus on, it won't take up the bulk of the discussion. Our group would like to break down the global distributions of these HNLC areas, describing regional wind and oceanic circulation patterns that lead to the formation of these regions. We want to compare the three major HNLC regions to other regions of relatively production parts of the ocean. We also think that discussing ecology within these regions would provide valuable insight to the page. An interest lies within the potential for these large regions to draw down atmospheric CO2.