Octopuses are Already Adapting Climate Change and Rising Levels of CO2 in Ocean: Study
Climate crisis and global warming are changing our environment in not a good way and a few animals might be adapting to it already. A study conducted by Walla Walla University, in a collaboration with researchers from La Sierra University, studied how the changing nature of oceans with rising temperature is affecting octopuses. The study published in the Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Journal by University of Chicago Press Journals is titled, ‘Impact of Short- and Long-Term Exposure to Elevated Seawater Pco2 on Metabolic Rate and Hypoxia Tolerance in Octopus rubescens’. A team of four scientists studied how ocean acidification, which is the process of rising carbon dioxide levels in seawater, is affecting the metabolism of octopuses. The Walla Walla University scientists maintain that despite their resilience to acidification, inshore octopuses face both greater carbon dioxide concentrations and increasing episodic, acute environmental hypoxia in both open coastal environments and semi enclosed basins such as the Salish Sea.
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