Australia's Southern Rock Lobster Stocks Showing Resistance to Climate Change
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] June 19, 2017
Research from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) suggests Australia’s Southern rock lobster fishery is showing resistance to climate change.
The research identified many complex environmental factors affecting the abundance of juvenile lobsters, but those that were important in one region were often completely different from those in another.
“The reef settlement of the rock lobster J. edwardsii is a complex process where larval behaviour, biological factors and oceanographic processes interact over different scales,” said Professor Gardner.
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