{"id":4171,"date":"2015-07-15T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:03:20","slug":"the-winners-and-losers-of-climate-change-in-ontario-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-winners-and-losers-of-climate-change-in-ontario-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The winners and losers of climate change in Ontario lakes<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4172\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4172\" class=\"wp-image-4172\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers found that the Ontario freshwater Lake Chub is at risk from species range expansion facilitated by climate change. (Image Credit:Don Jackson\/University of Toronto)\" width=\"467\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers found that the Ontario freshwater Lake Chub is at risk from species range expansion facilitated by climate change. (Image Credit:Don Jackson\/University of Toronto)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to predict the effects of climate change on ecosystems. Researchers in Toronto have monitored lakes in Ontario to help predict the impact of predators when their range shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The research team found that resident species are more likely to survive if their ancestors had a change to evolve alongside the new predator and if they had a greater body length.<\/p>\n<p>The new method allows researchers to identify the species most at risk due to the introduction of new predators caused by range expansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2015.1211\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em> on\u00a0<strong>July 15<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Karen Alofs, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to predict the effects of climate change on ecosystems. Researchers in Toronto have monitored lakes in Ontario to help predict the impact of predators when their range shifts. The research team found that resident species are more likely to survive if their ancestors had a change to evolve alongside the new predator and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,31,1445,171,50],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95346_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-15h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}