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

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Source: Ewen Cameron

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 study has found.

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