Global warming and the concomitant acidification of oceans is not necessarily a bad thing for all marine invertebrates, according to a study published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rebecca Gooding, Christopher Harley and Emily Tang studied the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), a keystone predator found in the intertidal regions along the coasts of western North America.
The authors reared juvenile sea stars in the laboratory at water temperatures ranging from 5–21°C to determine whether growth and feeding rates would increase across the range of water temperatures this species is likely to experience this century throughout much of its geographic range.
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practical fishkeeping, 25 June 2009. Full article.
