Big Advantage for the Small -- Climate change influences the size of marine organisms
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 06:28
in Earth & Climate
The ice is melting, the sea level is rising and species are conquering new habitats. The warming of the world climate has many consequences. In the current issue of the renowned journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) and the HYAX Lake Ecosystem Laboratory in Aix-en-Provence (Germany) report that climate change influences the size of aquatic organisms.