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Old fish in hot water

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Laboratory studies indicate that warming can eventually push cold-blooded organisms past their physiological limits, with detrimental effects on growth. Now evidence from the field indicates that this phenomenon is occurring in the Tasman Sea.

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Figure 1: A banded morwong in the Tasman Sea.

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    In the version of this News & Views originally published online, the credit for Fig. 1 was incorrect; this error has now been corrected in all versions of the text.

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  1. Myron A. Peck is at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, University of Hamburg, Olbersweg 24, D-22767, Hamburg, Germany,

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