image: 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. 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." view more
Credit: [Credit: Rebecca Kordas]