Ocean heatwave killed seaweed

Media by The University of Western Australia             

The decimation of a seaweed that provides vital habitat for an interdependent web of marine species off the West Australian coast, as a consequence of a record ocean heatwave, has been revealed in a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The research was conducted by ARC Future Fellow, Associate Professor Thomas Wernberg and his colleague Dr Daniel Smale.

 

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