#rockyshorelines
November 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
November 29, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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How does ecosystem diversity fair in the face of warmer water and fewer predators? Not great, it turns out
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A 15-year experiment at rocky intertidal sites on the northwestern US coast documents kelp, barnacle and mussel abundances before, during and after a multi-year marine heatwave and an outbreak of sea ...
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June 5, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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#speciesdiversity

"Researchers learned that sessile invertebrates—those that stay in one place...became more abundant during the study period, while seaweed species like kelps declined."

phys.org/news/2024-06...
June 5, 2024 at 2:59 AM