%0 Journal Article
%T Response of marine copepods to a changing tropical environment: winners, losers and implications
%A Li Lee Chew
%A Ving Ching Chong
%J Archive of "PeerJ".
%D 2016
%R 10.7717/peerj.2052
%X Background. Climate change concurrent with anthropogenic disturbances can initiate serial changes that reverberate up the food chain with repercussions for fisheries. To date, there is no information available concerning the combined effects of global warming and human impacts on tropical marine food webs. While temperate copepods respond differently to warming and environmental stressors, the extent to which tropical copepods can adapt to rising temperature of already warm waters remains unknown. We hypothesize that sea warming and other anthropogenic disturbances over the long term will have the greatest impact on the copepod community in nearshore waters where their effects are accentuated, and therefore vulnerable and resilient species could be identified
%K Coastal developments
%K Straits of Malacca
%K Man-induced effects
%K Zooplankton
%K Biodiversity
%K Species vulnerability
%K Food webs
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888292/