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Australia's vast kelp forests devastated by marine heatwave, study reveals [1]

A hundred kilometres of kelp forests off the western coast of Australia were wiped out by a marine heatwave between 2010 and 2013, a new study has revealed.

Publication Date: 
08/07/2016
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Australia [4], Heat Waves [5], Corals [6], Marine Ecosystems [7], Fisheries [8], Climate Change [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/guardian-uk
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/australia
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/heat-waves
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/corals
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/marine-ecosystems
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fisheries-0
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change