Marine animals live where ocean is most breathable, ranges may shrink with climate change
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
New research shows that a wide variety of marine animals -- from vertebrates to crustaceans to mollusks -- already inhabit the maximum range of breathable ocean that their physiology will allow. The findings provide a warning about climate change: Since warmer waters will harbor less oxygen, some stretches of ocean that are breathable today for a given species may not be in the future.