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Fish aren’t likely the ones at risk. Corals, plankton, and other invertebrates that can’t move too far are going to be heavily selected against if they aren’t h
by chewbacha 3y ago
Fish aren’t likely the ones at risk. Corals, plankton, and other invertebrates that can’t move too far are going to be heavily selected against if they aren’t heat tolerant. My lab in college used to study heat shock and how it impacted evolution. Our theory was that a rapidly heating environment could expose latent genetic diversity that heat shock proteins masked through chaperoning the folding. We demonstrated this in fruit flies.
We could see a rapid change if it’s prolonged enough.
- Hammershaft 3y agoPlankton concerns me because it's a primary source of the oxygen we breathe.
- beebeepka 3y agoAlso a major food source for plenty of species
- moffkalast 3y agoIsn't spawning of some fish species heavily impeded by high ocean temperature? They'd probably adjust to it over a few generations if we weren't overfishing them at the same time, but as-is I'm not too optimistic.
- chewbacha 3y agoThat’s a good point actually and I hadn’t considered the fish that have delicate spawning. Eggs and fry cannot travel far.