https://phys.org/news/2025-01-great-barrier-reef-fish-evidence.html
"Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of
climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals.
From food security to controlling seaweed and even making sand for beaches,
reef fish are a hugely important part of marine ecosystems, providing a range
of benefits to humans and coral reef ecosystems.
New research from an international team of marine scientists from the U.K. and
Australia and led by researchers at Lancaster University, published today (Jan.
13) in the journal
Nature Communications, reveals significant transformations
in fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef, the World's largest coral reef
ecosystem.
Their findings show Great Barrier Reef fish communities differ substantially
from those of the 1990s, and the pace of change has increased. The findings
raise questions around how long-known patterns of how life is spread across the
Earth seem to be shifting.
And importantly, researchers discovered that coral diversity, rather than the
amount of coral on a reef, plays the most crucial role in driving the diversity
of fish that depend upon it."
Via Susan ****
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
