Lizards adapt to become faster, stronger, to survive in a warmer climate
A surprising finding about anoles and climate change – Washington Post story here.
Limitations to reef recovery
This week an intriguing study came out in Science demonstrating with very conclusive findings that both coral and fish juveniles prefer to be in water that is more typical of a healthy as opposed to a degraded reef (pdf here).
Coral reefs that are degraded have a substantially greater proportion of weedy algae on them than coral themselves. These algae are […]
News You May Missed
Some stories you may have missed over Christmas….
US Customs and Border Protection chides Resorts World Bimini
New Research: The impact of sea level rise on 10 insular biodiversity hotspots.
10 insular Biodiversity hotspots investigated in this study. Numbers indicate the number of islands included in the study from each region. A total of 4450 islands! Figure taken from Bellard et al […]
Reasons for Low Hurricane Activity
Opinion piece from Wayne Neely (article here). Here is one of Abaco
Scientist’s recent related posts.
Extreme Weather Events at a Minimum in 2013
Article here. More thoughts in previous posts here and here.
I am not sayin', but just sayin' (more musings about climate change)
From the Economist article linked below
I’ve been traveling in England to serve as examiner for a Ph.D. defense,
but back up and running now. Gave me a lot of time to read up on
the sextennial Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
(the official press […]