Monday, April 30, 2012

Welcome to my blog!

Red fox attacking an arctic fox.  The red fox is clearly superior.
The purpose of this blog is to raise awareness of the ways in which warming is impacting life in the tundra.  Over the years, the earth has been gradually warming.  This has set in motion various feedback loops that cause warming to increase at faster and faster rates.  The increase in temperature is rapidly changing interactions among species, which in the arctic has generally resulted in a decline of population growth.
This blog uses the arctic fox to demonstrate on of the ways in which this is happening.  We will see that as temperature increases, competition for food or other necessities often increase as species shift latitudinally.  In the case of the arctic fox, its larger and superior neighbor the red fox has begun to shift further north, competing for their food and forcing arctic foxes out of their dens.

3 comments:

  1. Overall, your blog seems to address interesting issues in regard to climate change in Tundra. However, I do think there are more information that you need to include on your blog (refer to my comments in each page), which I hope you will do later.

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  2. Hello! Overall, your blog does a good job summarizing the general facts about how the arctic fox is affected by climate change (range shifts -> increased predation from red foxes). However, you only have one tab about the effects of climate change on multiple species, which is what you are proposing in your title. Maybe you can specify that you're going to specifically talk about the climate effects on arctic fox? Also, maybe you can give suggestions for solutions for how we can solve this problem (maybe domestication?). Keep up the good work!

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  3. I like your website, good job! Nice organization, visuals, etc.

    I wonder if you might make your life easier by retitling/focusing the website specifically on on the arctic fox, and then you could focus the discussion on the other species either on how they interact with the arctic fox, or similarities / differences between the arctic fox and these other species. It's great information, but it might be hard to stop your website from blowing up (length wise!).

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