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Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths

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Our global oceans are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate, including marine heatwaves, species redistributions and increased human–wildlife conflict. Now, researchers use acoustic surveys to project risk for one of the least understood and most abundant habitats on Earth, the ocean’s mesopelagic zone.

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Fig. 1: Organisms of the mesopelagic.

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  1. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, USA

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  2. Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, USA

    Elliott L. Hazen

  3. University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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Hazen, E.L. Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 891–892 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01484-5

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