Press Release – University of Auckland Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young snapper to hear, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James Cook University in Australia. Humans are releasing more carbon into the atmosphere, …
Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young snapper to hear, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James Cook University in Australia.
Humans are releasing more carbon into the atmosphere, resulting in warming of both the atmosphere and oceans. The sea absorbs around 30 per cent of CO2 produced and increasing the amount of CO2 absorbed causes the world’s oceans to acidify.
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 1:09 pm
Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young
snapper to hear, according to a new study published by
scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James
Cook University in Australia.
Humans are
releasing more carbon into the atmosphere, resulting in
warming of both the atmosphere and oceans. The sea absorbs
around 30 per cent of CO2 produced and increasing the amount
of CO2 absorbed causes the world’s oceans to
acidify.
During the larvae stage, fish develop remarkable
swimming and sensory abilities, which are vital to survival
and their ability to locate suitable settlement habitat and
Critically endangered Whenua Hou diving petrels, or kuaka in Ngāi Tahu dialect, may need greater protection from lights on vessels in seas surrounding.
Date: 18 February 2021
This chick is from a single breeding pair who made their nest this year on Pitt Island/Rangihaute/Rangiauria. One of the pair is itself a Pitt Island-reared chick, which returned to breed.
DOC Principal Marine Science Advisor Igor Debski says that although other albatross species breed in the Chatham islands, most Antipodean albatross nest at the Antipodes Islands so this is an exciting event.
“When we banded and tagged the chick on the 23 December it had already left the nest, a sign it was about to fledge. The tracking information shows it fledged on 27 December, so we made it just in time.”