#neopelagic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #neopelagic, aggregated by home.social.
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"Our results suggest that the historical lack of available substrate limited the #colonization of the open #ocean by #coastal #species, rather than #physiological or #ecological constraints as previously assumed. It appears that coastal species persist now in the open ocean as a substantial component of a #neopelagic #community sustained by the vast and expanding #sea of #plastic #debris"
#ecology #pollution #Microplastic #sustainability #marinedebris
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01997-y