Sunday, October 18, 2015

Oceanic Food Chain Collapse

A study by Ivan Nagelkerken and Sean Connell of The University of Adelaide in Australia concludes that acidification and warming in the oceans will lead to "simplification" of that ecosystem. The loss of species diversity and increased metabolism brings a mismatch of available food for larger carnivores. Nagelkerken:
There will be a species collapse from the top of the food chain down.

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