Snail on a purple coral (IMAGE)

University of Helsinki

Snail on a purple coral

Caption

Cyphoma gibbosum on Gorgonia ventalina. Tropical shallow-water molluscs face the sharpest warming trajectories; in our projections the North Atlantic combined strong warming with declining productivity, both associated with smaller mean body size in gastropods.

Credit

Craig McClain, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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