‘Wrong-way’ migrations stop shellfish from escaping ocean warming – Science Daily

Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates — including sea scallops, blue mussels, surfclams and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry — into warmer waters and threatening their survival, a Rutgers-led study shows.In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers identify a cause for the “wrong-way” species migrations: warming-induced changes to their spawning times, resulting in the earlier release of larvae that are pushed into…

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