Changing Climate Disrupted Gyres by Julia Manning RE

Title Changing Climate Disrupted Gyres Artist Julia Manning RE (i) Medium Linocut (i) Numbered /6 Size (WxH)   75 x 50cm Framed No Ref. No 24572 Price: £820.00

Leptocephali are classically described as being willow-leaf shaped. This shape is ideally suited to being caught in marine currents to be transported over large distances. Climate change may be having a direct effect on the way the currents or gyres convey the eels; the currents have been changing in strength and direction which could mean that the leptocephali are not being delivered to where they can thrive – they are missing their target; the warming waters may also be affecting production of the specific plankton, or the detritus from those plankton types, that the leptocephali feed on.