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California marine ecosystem may be affected active distribution here of bright pink slugs, previously inhabited much south. These mollusks first appeared here. waters during the hurricane Il Nino, mixed ocean water sixteen years ago.
Now bright pink slugs multiply again in atypical for this type of places, as the water temperature has increased markedly. The invasion of these mollusks seriously threatens indigenous plants and to animals.
In the future, other southern species may also move north and, not as an example of harmless pink slugs, destroy the unique ecological cold water system. As Terry Gosliner says, zoologist at the California Academy of Natural Sciences, today at The coast can see several hundred slugs daily.
It is noted that the average water temperature in the oceans is now 1.6 – 2.7 ° higher than in previous decades.
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