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News Release 15-061
Warmer, lower-oxygen oceans will shift marine habitats
Changes will result in marine animals moving away from equator
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Scientists studied Atlantic rock crabs to see how they would fare in a warmer climate.
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The carapace of an Atlantic rock crab; the crabs may need to change locations in a warmer world.
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Atlantic cod, here under a shipwreck off Massachusetts, may soon need to move to cooler waters.
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Declining cod stocks may be further threatened by ever-warmer waters.
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Common eelpout, bottom-dwelling fish in northern latitudes, may head yet farther north.
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The researchers' findings are described in the June 5, 2015, issue of Science magazine. On the cover: The Awa people of the Brazilian Amazon. Some of the Awa have recently contacted the outside world, and such contacts with isolated tribes are on the rise. Anthropologists say that these emerging tribes are threatened by common Western diseases and exploitative outsiders and may face a dangerous future without protection. See pages 1061, 1072, and 1080.
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