Animals shrinking in the heat (0)

Animals shrinking in the heat
This article was published in Daily mail, on 17 October 2011.
The author of the article is Tamara Cohen .
The article discusses about animals who are shrinking due to global warming .
Scientist have warned, that animals such as sheep , deer, birds and reptiles are shrinking due to climate change.
Researchers say warmer temperatures over the past few years have made some animals adapt to need less body fat to survive while others are struggling for food. 
In the next few decades, some types of mammals, fish , birds and plants are getting smaller and evolve into miniature versions of what they are today .
This could force some creatures, that people eat, to become extinct,
Dr David Bickford from the National University of Singapore reviewed research showing creatures from deer to tortoises, gulls, goshawks and even polar bears have already shrunk over the past 50 years. 
’Because recent climate change may be faster than past historical changes in climate, many organisms may not respond or adapt quickly enough. The species that can adapt are the species that will be affected by potential declines in body size .’
Researches say warmer and drier conditions have seen an increase in droughts which have shrunk some plants, and acidification of the ocean has affected the size of algae and plankton which are at the bottom of the food chain.
Experimental research has also shown that for every degree Celsius of warming, plants of various types shrank by between 3 and 17 percent , up to 4 per ent in marine animals, and up to 22 percent in fish.