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Cod Could Cope with Constrained Climate Change

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Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Cod egg survival stays high with limited warming, but plummets when the temperature rises a few degrees Celsius in their current spawning grounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Polar bears and coral reefs are obvious victims of climate change,

0:37.0

but a warming world will also challenge many other animals,

0:41.0

for example, cod. The fish play a critical role in marine ecosystems

0:46.2

and human economies. Climate change could devastate Atlantic and polar cod. A team of scientists wanted to find out how rising sea

0:54.9

temperatures and ocean acidification might affect these fish populations.

0:59.2

We went out with our research vessel into the baronsie and caught Atlantic caught and

1:06.8

polar caught and brought them back alive into a research facility in northern Norway.

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Fleming Dock, a marine biologist at the Alfred Wagner Institute in Germany.

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And in this facility we raised the eggs and larvae under different temperature and ocean acidification mimicking the conditions expected for the next decades to come.

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The researchers placed the eggs in larvae in various carbon dioxide concentrations,

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