Author: Eric Ralls

In the face of rising ocean temperatures, fish are changing their foraging behavior and prey selection, leading to potentially significant ecological impacts. A recent study conducted by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, discovered how these changes could increase the risk of extinction within marine ecosystems.Studying how climate change affects foraging fishThe research focused on fish in the Baltic Sea, showing that as temperatures rise, fish tend to consume the first prey they encounter, which are usually more abundant but smaller, such as brittle stars, small which are crustaceans, worms, and mollusks.This shift…