CFAX 1070Pink sea urchins moving to shallower waters as deep sea food sources, oxygen levels decline due to ocean warming
Rylan Command, lead author from Memorial University and UVic Faculty of Science alumni, joins the program to discuss a recently observed change in behaviour of deep-sea fragile pink sea urchins off the south coast of Vancouver Island that is linked to climate change impacts including a marine heatwave that persisted in the Pacific Ocean off North America between 2013 to 2016.
IMAGE: Deep-sea fragile pink sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus fragilis, captured by the Barkley Canyon Upper Slope observatory camera.
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada
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