Climate Change Causing Significant Shift In Composition Of Coast...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 13:00

A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily to the effects of global warming.

Invertebrates and warm-water species increase while bottom feeders decrease.


 

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