2010Sept1: Research led by Tim King, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, suggests that horseshoe crabs numbers may continue to decline because of the effects of climate change, such as sea-level rise and water temperature fluctuations. “Using genetic variation, we determined the trends between past and present population sizes of horseshoe crabs and found that a clear decline in the number of horseshoe crabs has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age,” said King, the lead author of the new study published in Molecular Ecology (U.S. News & World Report).
Reference: U.S. News & World Report http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/09/01/climate-change-implicated-in-decline-of-horseshoe-crabs.html
Image Description: Horseshoe crab, Anna Maria Island, Florida. Photo by Amanda, 2005June19. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horseshoe_Crab.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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