Green Options » ecological collapse http://greenoptions.com/tag/ecological-collapse Posts tagged 'ecological collapse' Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:33:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Science Finds ‘Butterfly Effect’ on Fisheries http://ecoscraps.com/2008/02/05/science-finds-butterfly-effect-on-fisheries/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/02/05/science-finds-butterfly-effect-on-fisheries/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:33:58 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/02/05/science-finds-butterfly-effect-on-fisheries/ Pacific sardines (photo by user Tewy at Wikimedia Commons).Researchers with Scripps Institution of Oceanography believe they may have found the answer to the mystifying collapse of Pacific sardine fisheries in the middle of the last century: a shift in wind patterns that drastically reduced the upwelling of plankton, the fish’s primary food source. The discovery has implications for future climate change as well.

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