Product details

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

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.