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Climate change: new transoceanic route for marine fish

For over 150 years, Indo-Pacific fish species have colonized the Mediterranean entering the Suez Canal. Research coordinated by Cnr-Irbim indicates the possibility that the phenomenon extends towards the Atlantic Ocean due to climate change. The work was recently published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

New research coordinated by the Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies of the National Research Council (Cnr-Irbim) illustrates how the penetration of different fish species from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, may in the future extend to the 'Atlantic Ocean due to climate change.

 

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