Plates Underwater (IMAGE)

University of British Columbia

Plates Underwater

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Warming and limpet herbivores restructure marine communities. In the foreground, seaweed proliferates on a plate exposed to ambient temperatures in the absence of limpets. Just beyond, very little survives on a plate exposed to warm temperatures and where limpets are allowed to graze.

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Rebecca Kordas

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