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"Not just hot water": marine heatwaves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes

"Not just hot water": marine heatwaves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes
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Marine heatwaves are causing a shift in the relationship between seagrasses and their associated microbes, turning a beneficial symbiosis into a toxic one. This discovery highlights how climate-driven temperature spikes can disrupt essential marine ecosystems.

Heat stress from marine heatwaves can create a toxic relationship between seagrasses and a hidden ecosystem of bacteria, transforming a previously beneficial co-existence between marine plants and microbes into a harmful one, a University of Sydney a... [1944 chars]

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