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Research Roundup
News January 17, 2020Written by: Alice Fleerackers, Peak Contributor Warming waters pose problems for the future of coastal kelp From melting ice caps on our poles to forest fires in the Amazon, the impacts of climate change are everywhere. New research by SFU post-doctoral student Jordan Hollarsmith and colleagues reveals that rising temperatures may be affecting life closer to home — right here on BC’s coast. Hollarsmith’s study, published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, investigated how increasingly warm, acidic oceans are changing life for giant kelp populations. In a lab experiment, she found that kelp were unable to reproduce in hotter…
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Keeping it slow and stable in the animal world
Peak Web September 16, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor and Agnetha de Sa, Peak Associate Animals are slow to catch on SFU researchers have published a study investigating and comparing the delays of animal reflexes between small and large animals. The study, published in…
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