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Nat Commun. 2021 Dec 02;12(1):6885. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27188-6.

Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas.

Nature communications

Linsey E Haram, James T Carlton, Luca Centurioni, Mary Crowley, Jan Hafner, Nikolai Maximenko, Cathryn Clarke Murray, Andrey Y Shcherbina, Verena Hormann, Cynthia Wright, Gregory M Ruiz

Affiliations

  1. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA. [email protected].
  2. Ocean and Coastal Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT, USA.
  3. Lagrangian Drifter Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  4. Ocean Voyages Institute, Sausalito, CA, USA.
  5. International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  6. Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada.
  7. Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  8. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA.

PMID: 34857744 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27188-6

[No abstract available.]

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