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Algal blooms: Trouble in the tide pools
2015-06-04 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In August 2011, scientists at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory walked into their labs to a strange, disturbing sight: Thousands of purple sea urchins and other marine invertebrates were dead in their tanks, which are fed directly by seawater. Outside, the tea-colored ocean washed up carcasses of red abalone, large sea stars, and football-sized, snail-like chitons. Less conspicuous--but even more heavily impacted as a population--were the millions of purple sea urchins and tiny sea stars that...
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