Resilience of seagrass populations to thermal stress does not reflect regional differences in ocean climate

What is it about?

Vulnerability to climate change is thought to be greatest at the warm edge of a species distribution, where environmental temperatures are hottest to begin with. We demonstrate that warm-edge populations of seagrass in the Mediterranean are more thermally tolerant than central populations living under cooler conditions and resultantly less sensitive to climate warming than previously thought.

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