Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is the "geography of climate change" meeting the biology of body size. The Arctic is losing oxygen fastest; the North Atlantic warming hard and losing productivity; the Southern Ocean barely changing. Each basin hands its animals a different problem. 🧪 150
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It matters beyond size. Shifts in the size structure of ocean life ripple into carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and the seafood billions of people depend on. And the gap between low and high emissions is enormous, so the scale of this is still ours to decide. 🧪 #marinelife 173
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Huge congratulations to lead author Isaac Trindade-Santos, and to coauthors Tom Webb, Noel Heim, and the team. Built on the MOBS database and OBIS. Open access, all code and data public. 🧪 #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...doi.orgNonuniform resizing of marine life under climate change | PNASGlobal warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t... 0101