News: marine ecosystems

Changes in marine ecosystems going undetected

An underwater photo of a kelp ecosystem.

Existing ways of calculating biodiversity dynamics are not very effective in detecting wholesale species community change due to the effects of ocean acidification.

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Ocean warming threatens richest marine biodiversity

An underwater photo of marine biodiversity, including fish and turtles.

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has revealed that rates of future warming threaten marine life in more than 70 per cent of the most biodiverse-rich areas of Earth’s oceans. 

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Roadshow spotlights iconic marine animals

An underwater photo of a sea lion, taken by Carl Charter.

A team of researchers from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide are travelling across South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog on a marine education roadshow to showcase the importance of First Nations’ Sea Country and marine parks as homes for invaluable species.

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High CO2 to slow tropical fish move to cooler waters

A Moorish idol fish

A new study from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide shows that the ocean acidification predicted under continuing high CO2 emissions may make cooler, temperate waters less welcoming.

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Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2

Triplefin fish near underwater vent

Research from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have higher reproductive capacity because of larger sex organs, under the more acidic oceans of the future.

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Shellfish reef project wins Eureka Prize

Underwater oyster reef research

×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide marine ecologists are among a team of scientists awarded a Eureka Prize for their research towards rebuilding ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog’s lost shellfish reefs.

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Marine food webs under increasing stress

Marine life, Whakaari Island, New Zealand

Scientists at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide have found growing evidence that marine ecosystems will not cope well with rising sea temperatures caused by climate change.

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