Deep-sea corals record dramatic long-term shift in Pacific Ocean ecosystem
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 15 December, 2013
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Long-lived deep-sea corals preserve evidence of a major shift in the open Pacific Ocean ecosystem since around 1850, according to a new study. The findings indicate that changes at the base of the marine food web observed in recent decades in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre may have begun more than 150 years ago at the end of the Little Ice Age....