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Range-edge effects of marine heatwaves

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An analysis of hundreds of fish biomass surveys shows that warmer years combined with marine heatwaves can enhance regional population abundances in the cold edges of species’ biogeographical distributions, but contribute to population declines at warmer latitudes.

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Fig. 1: Opposite range-edge effects of marine heatwaves on the biomass of regional fish populations.
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