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    Positive interactions dominate among marine microbes, six-year study reveals: « Warming ocean temperatures appear to alter relationships among microscopic organisms with unknown consequences. »
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    Positive interactions dominate among marine microbes, six-year study reveals: « Warming ocean temperatures appear to alter relationships among microscopic organisms with unknown consequences. »


    Positive interactions dominate among marine microbes, six-year study reveals: « Warming ocean temperatures appear to alter relationships among microscopic organisms with unknown consequences. »

    https://today.ucsd.edu/story/positive-interactions-dominate-among-marine-microbes-six-year-study-reveals

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      > Marine microbes interact in ways that benefit one another more often than they eat each other or compete. The team also found that periods of elevated ocean temperatures, usually times of stress for these microbes because of a dearth of nutrients, actually resulted in even more of these positive interactions.

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      Reference: Ewa Merz, Riley J Hale, Erik Saberski, Kasia M Kenitz, Melissa L Carter, Jeff S Bowman, Andrew D Barton, Temperature alters interactions and keystone taxa in the marine microbiome, The ISME Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026, wraf287, https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf287