Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Ocean Issues: Climate change

When the Heat's On, Some Fish Can Cope: Certain Tropical Species Have Greater Capacity to Deal With Rising Sea Temperatures Than Thought


ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2011) — Australian scientists have discovered that some tropical fish have a greater capacity to cope with rising sea temperatures than previously thought -- by adjusting over several generations.

Munday et al. 2011. Rapid transgenerational acclimation of a tropical reef fish to climate change