Metro News featured a UBC study that found ocean acidification could threaten biodiversity for animal species in some marine habitats.
“Habitat complexity decreases along with increases of the CO2 gradient. So what happens is the types of coral that are in the more acidified parts are more round, and they don’t have many hiding places for fish,” said Jennifer Sunday, a UBC zoologist. “And from other work, we know that when you change a coral reef’s habitat complexity, you also have a decline in biodiversity.”
