{"id":784,"date":"2020-04-22T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pansch-research.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:57:23","slug":"new-paper-out-testing-thermal-variability-affects-two-key-predators-of-the-western-baltic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"New paper out testing how thermal variability affects key benthic predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-63679-0.epdf?sharing_token=suBnL3tZVXurExHiET6modRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PDVTyRpWZFyF2R-uCO8Z7-gM46DvCKNhU9_hDjSrMLAl6rIguQ3gSan-1-ojADrA08gIi-Laq3WjAJS0QV7EXD6ypIzgzFgUhZWkrDhUSqAJIyr6lE3kz7gpXOR3Jaads%3D\">SciRep<\/a> paper, we tested how different scales of thermal disturbance, from sinusoidal short-term cycles to seasonal and long-term temperature changes impact the sea star <em>Asterias rubens<\/em> and the crab <em>Hemigrapsus takanoi<\/em>, two key predators on dominant Western Baltic Sea mussel reefs.<\/p>\n<p>We found strong impacts of long-term changes but sea stars also responded \u00a0to the very short-term thermal cycles, imposing additional stress to this species.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-785\" src=\"http:\/\/pansch-research.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-04-22-um-14.43.57-1024x778.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-04-22-um-14.43.57-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-04-22-um-14.43.57-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-04-22-um-14.43.57-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-04-22-um-14.43.57.png 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this SciRep paper, we tested how different scales of thermal disturbance, from sinusoidal short-term cycles to seasonal and long-term temperature changes impact the sea star Asterias rubens and the crab Hemigrapsus takanoi, two key predators on dominant Western Baltic Sea mussel reefs. We found strong impacts of long-term changes but sea stars also responded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/?p=784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New paper out testing how thermal variability affects key benthic predators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pansch-research.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}