
Voracious Appetites: How Ocean Acidification and Warming Effects Drive Ecosystem Volatility
Purple sea urchins exposed to simultaneous heat and acidity double their consumption rates yet fail to grow, signalling a mechanism for rapid kelp forest depletion. This metabolic overdrive suggests that future coastal ecosystems face unpredictable collapse thresholds as grazers eat more to gain less.
By Spindel, Munstermann, Karelitz, Ferraro, Pontier, Collicutt, Rolheiser, Gimenez, Cronmiller, Foss, Mahara, Swezey, Rogers-Bennett, Okamoto
