{"id":4498,"date":"2015-12-03T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:21:10","slug":"the-backwards-effects-of-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-backwards-effects-of-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"The backwards effects of warming<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manipulating the food-web to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions may have the opposite effect under a warmer climate, according to a new study. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under certain conditions increasing water temperatures can cause what are called \u2018trophic cascades\u2019 &#8211; These occur when a population increase or decrease in a one species impacts other species in the food-chain, by making either more or less food available. These shifts of species can affect the carbon balance by altering levels of photosynthesis or decomposing organic matter. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers believe the study highlights the need to account for changing climate scenarios when managing ecosystems. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/11\/12\/20150785\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Biology Letters\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>December 2<\/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\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T. B. Atwood, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manipulating the food-web to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions may have the opposite effect under a warmer climate, according to a new study. Under certain conditions increasing water temperatures can cause what are called \u2018trophic cascades\u2019 &#8211; These occur when a population increase or decrease in a one species impacts other species in the food-chain, by making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[125,31,1445,171],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-ecology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}