Mollusk shells on a beach along the Adriatic in Italy (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Mollusk shells on a beach along the Adriatic in Italy

Caption

Adriatic mollusks have proven to be incredibly resilient to climate change, weathering the last ice age with nearly no long-term effects. But human activity over the last few centuries threatens to destabilize mollusk communities in the region, with negative impacts for the marine ecosystems they occupy.

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Fabio Negri

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