{"id":63194,"date":"2022-07-31T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63194"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:31:36","slug":"chronicling-ecosystem-collapse-from-the-tropics-to-the-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63194","title":{"rendered":"Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the\u00a0Antarctic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the\u00a0Antarctic<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cWe assessed evidence of collapse in 19 ecosystems (both terrestrial and marine) along a 58\u00b0 latitudinal gradient for which major signals of change have been reported.\u201d\u00a0Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic<\/a>\u00a0A better title would have been \u201cWe aren\u2019t Combatting Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic\u201d Click on the link above for the 19 ecosystems that are in collapse now. Below are other links to additional evidence of the unfolding catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least 452 of the world\u2019s smallest penguins have been found dead on the beaches of New Zealand\u2019s North Island over the past six weeks\u2014and more than half of those over the past 10 days.\u201d
\nDead Penguins Keep Washing Up on New Zealand\u2019s Beaches. Here\u2019s Why.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLittle blue penguins \u2014 a flightless bird native to\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0and the world\u2019s smallest penguin species \u2014 have been washing up dead on the country\u2019s beaches, in what experts say are more frequent mass die-offs amid changing climate patterns.\u201d\u00a0Hundreds of dead penguins are washing up on New Zealand beaches<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPataua smelled \u201clike death\u201d on Saturday after thousands of dead and dying pipi were blanketed across a shellfish gathering hotspot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Whang\u0101rei Heads resident broke the news online, saying Pataua\u2019s pipi beds were in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[\u2026]millions of pipi in every size dead the place smells like death [sic],\u201d they wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA video showed a sea of dead pipi strewn across the sandbars between Pataua North and South \u2013 popular with seafood gatherers.\u201d\u00a0Thousands of pipi wash up dead in Pataua, Whang\u0101rei Heads<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a new documentary shot by my old mate Simon Mark Brown;
\nEpisode 1 of Seasick: Saving the Hauraki Gulf.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the video below my former guest on Nature Bats Last Oceanographer Jim Massa quotes the following paper;\u00a0Kelp\u2019s Carbon Sink Potential Could Be Blocked by Coastal Darkening<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the\u00a0Antarctic \u201cWe assessed evidence of collapse in 19 ecosystems (both terrestrial and marine) along a 58\u00b0 latitudinal gradient for which major signals of change have been reported.\u201d\u00a0Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic\u00a0A better title would have been \u201cWe aren\u2019t Combatting Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1723,19308],"class_list":["post-63194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ecosystem-collapse","tag-kevin-hester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63195,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63194\/revisions\/63195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}