Equatorial decline of thousands of marine species is gain for higher latitudes
A new paper from Chhaya Chaudhary’s PhD shows that the latitudinal gradient of species richness has been changing in concert with climate change since at least the 1950s (Chaudhary et al. 2021). Thousands of species have left the equator for higher latitudes as...
World map of the kelp biome updated
The first world map of the laminarian kelp biome has been published (Jayathilake and Costello (2020). It estimates the kelp biome to occupy 1,469,900 km2 and be present on 22 % of the world’s coastline. It is thus the second most widely distributed marine biome,...
How can scientists agree to a list of all species?
No single list of all the world’s species’ names has been agreed by scientists. Some taxa have no list, and some, especially the more popular mammals and birds have several. In a recent paper, we proposed a plan to address this that involves collaboration...
Equatorial species loss started before fossil-fuel fed climate change
Numbers of species in the equator started declining since the last age and before industrialisation, but more species will be lost due to climate warming The graph shows the number of species at different latitudes during the ice-age (blue), pre-industrial centuries...
为了生物多样性而最应该优先保护的30%全球海域
为了生物多样性而最应该优先保护的30%全球海域 The marine biodiversity research group at the University of Auckland has published a world map of where most biodiversity is in the ocean. This is the most representative map of biodiversity to date because it considers marine life from genes...Subscribe by Email
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