{"id":1914,"date":"2009-11-24T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/acid-oceans-leave-fish-at-more-risk-from-predators\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:23:49","slug":"acid-oceans-leave-fish-at-more-risk-from-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/acid-oceans-leave-fish-at-more-risk-from-predators\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid oceans leave fish at more risk from predators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/nanophilosophy\/1BC6BJxYpJSIhPFBj109KEm2fCAsiiatu4gAv1HIEYUvAkImIFYLA9oTwrHM\/P1AF3249D.png\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\"\/> <\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Ocean acidification could cause fish to become &quot;fatally attracted&quot; to their predators, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<p \/>  A team studying the effects of acidification &#8211; caused by dissolved CO2 &#8211; on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to &quot;smell danger&quot;.<\/p>\n<p \/>  Young clownfish that were reared in the acidified water became attracted to rather than repelled by the chemical signals released by predatory fish.<\/p>\n<p \/>  The findings were published in the journal Ecology Letters.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Danielle Dixson from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, led the study.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>&nbsp;&quot;Ocean acidification has the potential to become a widespread problem and it&#8217;s unknown how many organisms and ecosystems will cope with the decrease [in] pH.<\/p>\n<p \/>  &quot;This study shows that ocean acidification could lead to an increase in the mortality of larvae.&quot;<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>(<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8369453.stm\">BBC<\/a>)<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/nanophilosophy.org\/acid-oceans-leave-fish-at-more-risk-from-pred\">Preposterous Guru<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean acidification could cause fish to become &quot;fatally attracted&quot; to their predators, according to scientists. A team studying the effects of acidification &#8211; caused by dissolved CO2 &#8211; on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to &quot;smell danger&quot;. Young clownfish that were reared in the acidified water became attracted to rather than repelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}