Vegetarian Sea Snails Help Marine Community Resist Warming (2 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Vegetarian Sea Snails Help Marine Community Resist Warming (2 of 9)

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Herbivorous limpet clamps down on the rock during low tide on a hot day to avoid drying out. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 11 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.L. Kordas at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Herbivory enables marine communities to resist warming."

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[Credit: Rebecca Kordas]

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