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... temperatures similar to those in a freshwater wellstream . Year in and year out , the temperature varies but little , and animals and plants are damaged and die if the surrounding tem- perature should vary even minimally . Fortunately ...
... temperatures similar to those in a freshwater wellstream . Year in and year out , the temperature varies but little , and animals and plants are damaged and die if the surrounding tem- perature should vary even minimally . Fortunately ...
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... temperatures between 32 ° and 34 ° C often are lethal . That means tropical marine animals live very close to the upper temperature limit of their existence , so that an unusually hot summer may have catastrophic consequences . The ...
... temperatures between 32 ° and 34 ° C often are lethal . That means tropical marine animals live very close to the upper temperature limit of their existence , so that an unusually hot summer may have catastrophic consequences . The ...
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... temperature affects the various components of an ecosystem , because one can apply the reaction rate rule ( reaction time , approximately doubled at a 10 ° C increase in temperature ) to life - activity - tem- perature correlations as ...
... temperature affects the various components of an ecosystem , because one can apply the reaction rate rule ( reaction time , approximately doubled at a 10 ° C increase in temperature ) to life - activity - tem- perature correlations as ...
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