For tiny salamanders squirming skin-to-soil, big-picture weather patterns may seem as far away as outer space. But for decades, scientists have mostly relied on free-air temperature data at large spatial scales to predict future salamander distributions under climate change.
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Most of the World’s Salt Marshes Could Succumb to Sea Level Rise by Turn of Century
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Juvenile Black Rockfish Affected by Marine Heat Wave but Not Always for the Worse, Research Shows
Larvae produced by black rockfish, a linchpin of the West Coast commercial fishing industry for the past eight decades, fared better during two recent years of unusually high ocean temperatures than had been feared, new research by Oregon State University shows.