Natural disasters can have a profound effect on climate change AND the gradual climate change can have an impact on natural disasters. It is...
Adaptation refers to when a species changes to become better fitted to the environment as a result of natural selection. Adaptations generally occur ...
The word "migration" is used in a more familiar sense of the word as meaning a periodical movement of individuals.
Migration, or gene flow, ...
This is just my idea for an experimental page!
I recently saw a movie at Ciné called Beasts of the Southern Wild, and I couldn't help but thi...
According to CSIRO, the oceans generate about $52 billion per year. Climate change threatens the fisheries and tourism industry that are the sour...
To connect climate change with current events, there has been a lot of publications recently about Hurricane Sandy and the effect that clima...
Climate Change
Effects of Climate Change in the Environment
Oxygen Levels
Effects o...
The range is the distribution of a species, or the geographic area within which a species is found in nature.
With respect to climate change,...
Natural selection is the Darwinian notion that individuals that are better adapted to their environment will have a greater reproductive success....
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Many studies look at the potential of organisms to adapt or acclimate to a changing climate. These studies are often based on the assumption that...
An introduced species can be defined as a species that is living outside of its natural distribution range whether it has arrived there by accide...
As climate change continues to alter species' environmental niches, we know that organisms often move to different environments for which they ar...
We are halfway through this experiment. The discussion with students has been fantastic, and they are covering the topic well (while juggling other c...
LINK DUMP! These are references a colleague pointed me to that help flesh out this problem a bit (vague pun):
Meekan:
[Download file "M...
The article for this week was a very interesting one in that it continued to reinforce the ideas that we have been discussing in this seminar ove...
"Oxygen levels fell in Ice Age oceans"
http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/oxygen-levels-fell-in-ice-age-oceans/
This
article is a su...
Temperature Tolerance
Kelly et al. used the marine organism Tigriopus californicus to study the existence of local adaption that occurs in popu...
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As CO2 concentrations in the air increases, more CO2 will also be dissolved into the oceans. For plants such as seagrasses, this could pose a positive...
Evolution and Climate Change in the Oceans