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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

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Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change

Kx Spotlight – Collaboration, the key to fighting climate change

With partnerships spanning across disciplines, sectors and borders, and with academics and non-academics (including Indigenous communities, NGOs, policy makers, businesses and media) collaboration is at the centre of their work.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Biodiversity, biology, Climate change, CORU, Faculty, FERU, fisheries economics, knowledge exchange, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, UBC, William Cheung

Expect shorter food chains in more productive coastal ecosystems

Expect shorter food chains in more productive coastal ecosystems

“We provided evidence for bottom-up omnivory in nutrient-rich temperate pelagic ecosystems, where food chain length is determined by the level of diatom production,” said Jacob Lerner. “This is very different from the global model for pelagic ecosystems.”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, fish, food webs, IOF students, Krill, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, salmon, zooplankton

New model helps predict climate change-induced early spawning by fish

New model helps predict climate change-induced early spawning by fish

Fisheries managers and researchers may now predict how early fish will spawn in response to warming waters due to climate change, both in the oceans and in freshwaters.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, Climate change, Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fish stocks, Sea Around Us

Data confirm link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

Data confirm link between respiratory stress and fish reproduction

A consistent metabolic ratio found across 133 Chinese marine and freshwater fish species provides new evidence in support of the idea that fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – in response to growth-induced respiratory stress.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with biology, Climate change, Daniel Pauly, fish, physiology, Sea Around Us

Ecologists and mental health researchers unite to improve patient care, save wild animals using Fitbit-like devices

Ecologists and mental health researchers unite to improve patient care, save wild animals using Fitbit-like devices

Narwhals, sharks, and polar bears can help medical professionals improve care for patients with mental health struggles – and patients with conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder can offer insights that will help the conservation of many wild animals.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Animal movement, bio-logging, biology, Conservation, funding, Marie Auger-Methe, Marine mammals, Modelling, narwhals, physiology, polar bears, SERG, sharks, statistical ecology

What really makes fish become sexually active

What really makes fish become sexually active

“What I think really makes fish spawn for the first time is the increasing oxygen stress that growing fish experience,” Daniel Pauly said

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, Daniel Pauly, Faculty, fish, Sea Around Us

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