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For all the escalating climate-related threats to iconic and commercially valuable marine life in the Gulf of Maine, scientists say there is one creature we should especially keep our eye on — a barely visible creature that helps whales, puffins and cod survive: the zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus.
Ocean warming is having effects throughout the food chain.
Decades of hard work restored Atlantic puffins and other seabirds to rocky islands in the gulf, but now puffins face threats from climate change.
Species rely on one another, and merely protecting those listed as endangered does not go far enough.
Species rely on one another, and merely protecting those listed as endangered does not go far enough.