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Climate change is causing marine ‘coldwaves’ too, killing wildlife

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Title
Climate change is causing marine ‘coldwaves’ too, killing wildlife
Published by
The Conversation, April 2024
DOI 10.64628/aa.q5fnyhppq
Authors

David Schoeman, Nicolas Benjamin Lubitz

Abstract

New research shows climate change can drive sudden ocean cooling too. This can have devastating effects on marine life such as bull sharks and manta rays.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 118. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2024.
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#435,597
of 32,721,978 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#53,393
of 205,118 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,497
of 366,221 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#361
of 668 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,721,978 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 205,118 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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