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Climate change is a global issue and the effects on fish populations remain largely unknown. It is thought that climate change could affect fish at all levels of biological organisation, from cellular, individual, population and community. This thesis has taken a holistic approach to examine the way...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.427.1186 2023-05-15T17:51:14+02:00 By Natalie E. Crawley The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.427.1186 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7362/1/FulltextThesis.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.427.1186 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7362/1/FulltextThesis.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7362/1/FulltextThesis.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T04:22:40Z Climate change is a global issue and the effects on fish populations remain largely unknown. It is thought that climate change could affect fish at all levels of biological organisation, from cellular, individual, population and community. This thesis has taken a holistic approach to examine the ways in which climate change could affect fish from both tropical, marine ecosystems (Great Barrier Reef, Australia) and temperate, freshwater ecosystems (non-tidal River Thames, Britain). Aerobic scope of coral reef fish tested on the Great Barrier Reef was significantly reduced by just a 2°C rise in water temperature (31, 32 and 33°C, compared to the current summer mean of 29°C) due to increased resting oxygen consumption and an inability to increase the maximal oxygen uptake. A 0.3 unit decline in pH, representative of ocean acidification, caused the same percentage loss in aerobic scope as did a 3°C warming. Interfamilial differences in ability to cope aerobically with warming waters will likely lead to changes in the community structure on coral reefs with damselfish replacing cardinalfish. Concerning Britain, there is evidence of gradual warming and increased Text Ocean acidification Unknown |
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