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Extinction in ocean's mud presages key ecological changes
MADISON - The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the marine benthos - the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world's oceans - is giving scientists a new look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the world's biological diversity.... ...In new work published today (Nov. 12) in the journal Science, an international team of scientists describe w...