Tiny Marine Organisms Reflect Ocean Warming
January 5, 2006 @ 06:42 PM (EST)
Sediment cores collected from the seafloor off Southern California reveal that plankton populations in the Northeastern Pacific changed significantly in response to a general warming trend that started in the early 1900s. As ocean temperatures increased, subtropical and tropical species of small marine organisms called foraminifera (forams) became more abundant...
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