Michael Heithaus has demonstrated that a world without sharks is less resilient to climate events. In a recent study, Heithaus and his team tested whether an ecosystem could recover without sharks and found that they contribute to the stability and biodiversity of oceans.
“One of the reasons we did this study is because we think it’s important to be thinking about how everything is linked and sometimes those linkages are surprising,” said Rob Nowicki, a member of the research team. “They show climate resilience is not something that happens on its own. It happens in conjunction with species conservation.”
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