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Climate change affects deep sea life

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The abyss reacts to El Niño as quickly as surface ecosystems do.

The remote and lightless deep-sea floor has long been thought to be protected from events on the surface, such as global warming. But it now seems that climate change impinges on the rhythm of life on the seabed after all.

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  1. RuhlH. A., & SmithK. L. Science, 305. 513 - 515 (2004).

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Marine biologist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, California

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Marris, E. Climate change affects deep sea life. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040719-13

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