Surprisingly narrow combination of traits in fish species

A simple framework for the exploration of functional biodiversity

The world’s waterbodies are filled with predatory fish feeding on other animals from zooplankton to squid and other fish, while “vegetarian” or herbivore fish are rare, new research has found. By developing a framework to better understand aquatic biodiversity, an international team of researchers has analyzed the key traits –…

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Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species

Climate change will bring about significant distributional reorganization of marine life with a net range loss of core habitat for the majority of marine species, a new study led by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI) and co-authored by the AquaMaps…

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