Tag Archive for 'abalone'
Ellie Harrison of BBC’s Countryfile goes ormering around Lihou Island
January 27th, 2012 by Richard Lord
BBC One’s Countryfile came to Guernsey in early January 2012 to film island life. Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison searched the intertidal area around Lihou Island off Guernsey’s west coast for the ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, which is a large marine snail that is a culinary delicacy.
Global warming could cause Guernsey’s ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, to shrink
September 29th, 2011 by Queen Mary University of London
The way in which global warming causes many of the world’s organisms to shrink has been revealed by new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Almost all cold-blooded organisms are affected by a phenomenon known as the ‘temperature-size rule’, which describes how individuals of the same species reach a smaller adult size when reared […]
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