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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Move Species Threatened by Warming, Scientists Advise


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Clownfish swim through sea anemones on a coral reef in Java, Indonesia, in an undated photo.

As corals and other species decline due to global warming, researchers suggest in a paper released July 17, 2008, that actively moving some species to other locations could be "their best chance" at survival.

But others say such a plan is drastic and favors saving individual species over entire ecosystems.

Photograph courtesy Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland