New England Cod Collapse Linked to Warming Waters (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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New England Cod Collapse Linked to Warming Waters (4 of 4)

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Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to the collapse of Atlantic cod in the Gulf of Maine. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 29, 2015 issue of Science online, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.J. Pershing at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Portland, ME, and colleagues was titled, 'Slow Adaptation in the Face of Rapid Warming Leads to the Collapse of Atlantic Cod in the Gulf of Maine.'

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Pershing <i>et al</i>. / Lenfest Ocean Program

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