Ocean warming and acidification are changing shark behaviour

Posted on Aug 23 2016 by
sharksAs the Earth's oceans warms, sea-dwelling creatures experience a raft of changes. While much attention has been directed towards small-bodied fishes, we know relatively little about the effects of ocean warming and acidification on large predators like sharks.

A new publicationÌýby the Environment Institute's , , and Ìýhas uncovered the climate-sensitive metabolic and behavioural changes of large predators.

The paper, entitled "" was published in August, 2016 in Oikos.
The research has already received extensive media coverage, with . The video was broadcast during the 6pm news on the 17th of August, and the Facebook upload received more than 50,000 hits within 24 hours. For more from this research group, you can by Assoc. Prof Nagelkerken with Discover Magazine.

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