Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change?

Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? | Planetsave

planetsave.com 08 Sep '12, 5pm

Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change?

“Wilmers, Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and their co-authors, combined 40 years of data on otters and kelp bloom from Vancouver Island to the western edge of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. They found that otters “undoubtedly have a strong influence on the cycle of CO2 storage.” “Comparing kelp density with otters and kelp density without otters, they found that ‘sea otters have a positive indirect effect on kelp biomass by preying on sea urchins, a kelp grazer.’ When otters are around, sea urchins hide in crevices and eat kelp scraps. With no otters around, sea urchins graze voraciously on living kelp.”

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@WayneMeyersAuth » 15 Sep '12, 9pm
#Sea #Otters To Combat #Climate Change? | [link] Yay-nature will fix what's broken and restore #balance #earth #nature #ocean
@pewtrusts » 15 Sep '12, 3pm
RT @ pewenvironment: New research by #PewMarineFellow Jim Estes shows that otters may help combat climate change [link]
@LewRichmond » 14 Sep '12, 10pm
Sea otters combat climate change by eating sea urchins. Strange but true! [link]
@pewenvironment » 10 Sep '12, 8pm
New research from #PewMarineFellow Jim Estes show that otters could help combat climate change [link] (via @planetsave)
@meganreilly » 10 Sep '12, 6pm
@PixelatedToys Sea otters will save us all! [link]
@Brennen_S » 10 Sep '12, 2pm
[link] @joerogan otters were already cool...now they're helping the environment?
@Brennen_S » 10 Sep '12, 2pm
RT @Hipstercrite: maybe a sea otter should be the next president of the united states? [link]
@Placeslost » 10 Sep '12, 2pm
I will offer my services to help the Otters eat Sea Urchin to stop global warming, Uni at Uchiko anyone? [link]
@Hipstercrite » 10 Sep '12, 2pm
maybe a sea otter should be the next president of the united states? [link]
@DKesserich » 10 Sep '12, 8am
Geohacking with sea otters. Because sea otters are fucking awesome. [link]
@ChelseaLura » 09 Sep '12, 10pm
Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? Not only are they cute but they could help save the world. [link] #climatechange
@morgfair » 09 Sep '12, 4pm
RT @BedellRick: [link] @morgfair from planet [link] sea otters have an amazing effect on Co2 storage. Pretty ...
@SullivanStories » 09 Sep '12, 10am
So cool: [link] @paleopaws Can my spirit animal be an otter?
@artual » 09 Sep '12, 10am
RT @DigitalCSEtsy: Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@petabites » 09 Sep '12, 5am
do as you #otter clean up the water [link] --planetsave.com/2012/09/08/sea-otters-to-combat-climate-change
@ManosLijeros » 09 Sep '12, 4am
Increasing the population of Sea Otters could help sequester carbon & combat climate change… [link] How science can help…
@GTHenriksen » 09 Sep '12, 3am
Charismatic megafauna strike again! [link]
@dxp7 » 09 Sep '12, 3am
There are a bunch of little sea otters out there battling for our planet. [link] #medicinewheel
@mtori14 » 09 Sep '12, 3am
More sea otters? Yes please. I'll take two. [link]
@BacaTXDivorce » 09 Sep '12, 3am
Climate changed caused by too many sea urchins and not enough otters. What next? [link]
@lex_dc2al » 09 Sep '12, 2am
Awesome. [link]
@NikhilAShah » 09 Sep '12, 2am
A market value-add between $205 million and $408 million - Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@LSagebrush » 09 Sep '12, 2am
RT @WiselinePRT: Otters > Sea urchins > Kelp < #CO2? [link] #eco #marine #ghg
@WiselinePRT » 09 Sep '12, 2am
Otters > Sea urchins > Kelp < #CO2? [link] #eco #marine #ghg
@Holymonkees » 09 Sep '12, 2am
@spsheridan @podfeet do we have mor S Cal otters than we used to? [link]
@BedellRick » 09 Sep '12, 1am
[link] @morgfair from planet [link] sea otters have an amazing effect on Co2 storage. Pretty amazing stuff
@CindyFrancine » 09 Sep '12, 1am
RT @greenforyou Sea Otters, the Cutest Way to Fight Global Warming #green [link]
@StringDruid » 09 Sep '12, 1am
A very cute way to combat rising carbon dioxide levels [link]
@greenforyou » 09 Sep '12, 1am
Sea Otters, the Cutest Way to Fight Global Warming #green [link]
@ChristaDesir » 09 Sep '12, 1am
Hey @byobrooks -- you & the otter friend need to read this article about sea otters combatting climate change: [link]
@PoliticalCow » 09 Sep '12, 1am
@BigJoeBastardi - the solution to global warming! I mean climate change! [link]
@blankreb » 09 Sep '12, 1am
"Climate change is not a hoax!" - President Obama. You know the anti-science, anti-intelligence GOP will do nothing. [link]
@djzucker » 09 Sep '12, 12am
Interesting research out of UC Santa Cruz: Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@nvpatentlawyer » 09 Sep '12, 12am
The power of ecosystems: Sea Otters Combat Climate Change [link] #eco
@chadenfreude » 09 Sep '12, 12am
@AlisonRosen Cutest possible population boom ever?[link]
@UcanBEEgreen » 09 Sep '12, 12am
[link] #environment Interesting article highlights the complex relationship that an eco-system can have on green house gases.
@smfordo » 09 Sep '12, 12am
Great news! Earth has been saved ... by sea otters?!? [link] #climatechange
@Debs_za » 09 Sep '12, 12am
Otter CO2 Kelp enviro-chess [link]
@Zestryon » 08 Sep '12, 11pm
Les loutres, ces supermammifères (elles sont les reines de l'oceanarium :) RT @netsabes: Les loutres sauvent le monde [link]
@LionSamma » 08 Sep '12, 11pm
Sea otters. Saving the world, like bosses. :) Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@TehFlex » 08 Sep '12, 11pm
RT @netsabes: Les loutres sauvent le monde : [link]
@netsabes » 08 Sep '12, 11pm
Les loutres sauvent le monde : [link]
@danctheduck » 08 Sep '12, 11pm
There is certainly a game there. [link]
@KevOKeefe » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
UC Santa Cruz rep. on study that finds sea otters help climate change: "can have a big influence on the carbon cycle" [link]
@gotdem » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
RT @wandainparis: Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? | Planetsave [link]
@nuclear94 » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
I like sea otters. Sea Otters to save us humanity from climate change. Eat sea urchins which eat kelp which grabs CO2 [link]
@Samantha_Koons » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
interesting idea- Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@wandainparis » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? | Planetsave [link]
@quangmle » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
Does this mean the price of uni will go up?? :( Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change? [link]
@hammelleigh » 08 Sep '12, 10pm
Sea Otters and Climate Change [link]