University of California, Davis Environment News Tips: Climate Change Alters Base of Tahoe Food Web; Wine Industry Intent on Truly Going Green; Two From UC Davis Will Serve on Coastal Science Panel; Environmental Events Calendar.

(From AScribe)

DAVIS, Calif. -- The University of California, Davis today released the following environment news tips.

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CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERS BASE OF TAHOE FOOD WEB

UC Davis researchers at Lake Tahoe this week published the first evidence that climate change alters the makeup of tiny plant communities called algae, which are the very foundation of the web of life in freshwater lakes.

Other scientists had predicted that climate change would reduce the overall amount, or biovolume, of an important algae group called diatoms. However, the UC Davis researchers found that the warming of the lake changed not the overall …