Ocean cleaning stations under a changing climate: biological responses of tropical and temperate fish-cleaner shrimp to global warming

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 3068-3079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Rosa ◽  
Ana Rita Lopes ◽  
Marta Pimentel ◽  
Filipa Faleiro ◽  
Miguel Baptista ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Biological Responses ◽  
Temperate Fish ◽  
Cleaning Stations ◽  
Cleaner Shrimp

scholarly journals Climate Change and Goat Production: Enteric Methane Emission and Its Mitigation

Animals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratap Pragna ◽  
Surinder S. Chauhan ◽  
Veerasamy Sejian ◽  
Brian J. Leury ◽  
Frank R. Dunshea
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Heat Stress ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Climate Scenario ◽  
Rumen Fermentation ◽  
Ch4 Emission ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Ch4 Production ◽  
Enteric Methane ◽  
The Impact

The ability of an animal to cope and adapt itself to the changing climate virtually depends on the function of rumen and rumen inhabitants such as bacteria, protozoa, fungi, virus and archaea. Elevated ambient temperature during the summer months can have a significant influence on the basic physiology of the rumen, thereby affecting the nutritional status of the animals. Rumen volatile fatty acid (VFA) production decreases under conditions of extreme heat. Growing recent evidence suggests there are genetic variations among breeds of goats in the impact of heat stress on rumen fermentation pattern and VFA production. Most of the effects of heat stress on rumen fermentation and enteric methane (CH4) emission are attributed to differences in the rumen microbial population. Heat stress-induced rumen function impairment is mainly associated with an increase in Streptococcus genus bacteria and with a decrease in the bacteria of Fibrobactor genus. Apart from its major role in global warming and greenhouse effect, enteric CH4 is also considered as a dietary energy loss in goats. These effects warrant mitigating against CH4 production to ensure optimum economic return from goat farming as well as to reduce the impact on global warming as CH4 is one of the more potent greenhouse gases (GHG). The various strategies that can be implemented to mitigate enteric CH4 emission include nutritional interventions, different management strategies and applying advanced biotechnological tools to find solution to reduce CH4 production. Through these advanced technologies, it is possible to identify genetically superior animals with less CH4 production per unit feed intake. These efforts can help the farming community to sustain goat production in the changing climate scenario.

Argasid ticks, relapsing fever and a changing climate.

2021 ◽  
pp. 370-374
Author(s):  
Mike Teglas
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Relapsing Fever ◽  
Changing Climate

Abstract This expert opinion focuses on the potential future impact of global warming and climatic change on the distribution of argasid ticks and the prevalence of tick-borne relapsing fever.

Current Trends in Research in Climate Change Related to Biodiversity

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Singh ◽  
R. Nagendran
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Species Interaction ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Climate Interactions ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Leading Journals

The changing climate has forced its way into everyone’s mind as an unpleasant thought. Global warming, no more a hoax now, has started to show its presence everywhere. It has affected the atmosphere, economy, politics, lifestyle, biodiversity etc. Of all, biodiversity is a clear indicator of changing climate. The indication is made by the chemical, physiological or behavioral changes observed in animal and plant species. There has been a shift in the species diversity towards the regions which were originally cold but have become warm due to the warming of the climate. The research on the effects of climate change on biodiversity has been intensive. The studies have covered several aspects of ‘biodiversity -climate’ interactions. The present paper is an attempt to provide an insight into the major contributions by researchers as reflected in papers published during the last fifteen years in some of the leading journals and discuss the research needs for the future, especially in the context of developing countries.   Keywords - Climatology, biodiversity, species interaction, India

scholarly journals The Spotted Cleaner Shrimp, Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives, 1891), on an Unusual Scleractinian Host

Diversity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Ricardo González-Muñoz ◽  
Agustín Garese ◽  
Fabián H. Acuña ◽  
James D. Reimer ◽  
Nuno Simões
Keyword(s):  
Reef Fishes ◽  
Sea Anemones ◽  
Cleaning Stations ◽  
Cleaner Shrimp

The spotted cleaner shrimp, Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives, 1891), forms symbioses with sea anemones that may serve as cleaning stations for reef fishes [...]

scholarly journals Decoding Cli-Fi Dynamics in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
Ashna Francis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Research Team ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bible Belt ◽  
Species Extinction ◽  
Monarch Butterflies ◽  
Flight Behaviour ◽  
Changing Climate

Flight Behaviouris an integration of many important issues that humanity faces today like climate change, global warming, species extinction, and the advent of the age of Anthropocene. The novel is set in rural Tennessee and it explores the reaction of a bible belt community to the arrival of millions of monarch butterflies on the mountains of their hometown. This astonishing phenomenon is branded as a miracle by the townsfolk but the arrival of a research team reveals the troubling truth behind the butterflies’ presence. They have been driven away from their usual Mexican winter grounds because of devastating mudslides and flooding that affected the area. Kingsolver, in simple words, expresses the alarming reality of how changing climate affects biodiversity and leads many species to the verge of extinction. She artfully links the monarch’s struggle for survival with the protagonist’s search for identity, independence and self-expression.

scholarly journals Global Warming – Truth and Myths

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Anthropogenic Effects ◽  
Interglacial Period ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Degree Of Certainty

Climate change is inevitable. Contributing to this change are (1) natural effects, which include the Earth in an interglacial period and (2) various other effects such as anthropogenic effects, which include the release of non-indigenous gases into the atmospheres. However, the exact contribution of each effect to global climate change is not known with any degree of certainty and the blame can only be partially laid on the existence of the interglacial period and somewhat less on other effects. It is not the purpose of this paper to debunk the idea of climate change but to recognize other factors that can play a role in the changing climate.

Biological responses of two marine organisms of ecological relevance to on-going ocean acidification and global warming

2018 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 60-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gomiero ◽  
R.G.J. Bellerby ◽  
M. Manca Zeichen ◽  
L. Babbini ◽  
A. Viarengo
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ocean Acidification ◽  
Marine Organisms ◽  
Ecological Relevance ◽  
Biological Responses

scholarly journals Chasing a changing climate: Reproductive and dispersal traits predict how sessile species respond to global warming

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 880-891
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Archambault ◽  
W. Gregory Cope ◽  
Thomas J. Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Dispersal Traits

scholarly journals Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses Under a Rapidly Changing Climate?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imtiaz Rangwala ◽  
Wynne Moss ◽  
Jane Wolken ◽  
Renee Rondeau ◽  
Karen Newlon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Expert Elicitation ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Biological Responses ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
Spatiotemporal Scales

How robust is our assessment of impacts to ecosystems and species from a rapidly changing climate during the 21st century? We examine the challenges of uncertainty, complexity and constraints associated with applying climate projections to understanding future biological responses. This includes an evaluation of how to incorporate the uncertainty associated with different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios and climate models, and constraints of spatiotemporal scales and resolution of climate data into impact assessments. We describe the challenges of identifying relevant climate metrics for ecological models and evaluate the usefulness and limitations of different methodologies of applying climate change to both quantitative and qualitative ecological response models. We discuss the importance of incorporating extreme climate events and their stochastic tendencies in assessing ecological impacts and transformation, and provide recommendations for better integration of complex climate-ecological interactions at relevant spatiotemporal scales. We further recognize the compounding nature of uncertainty when accounting for our limited understanding of the interactions between climate and biological processes. Given the inherent complexity in ecological processes and their interactions with climate, we recommend integrating quantitative modeling with expert elicitation from diverse disciplines and experiential understanding of recent climate-driven ecological processes to develop more robust understanding of ecological responses under different scenarios of future climate change. Inherently complex interactions between climate and biological systems also provide an opportunity to develop wide-ranging strategies that resource managers can employ to prepare for the future.

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