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16 February 2026

Climate change disrupts mediterranean seafloor ecosystems, threatening hundreds of species

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Climate change is causing major shifts in the geographic distribution, diversity, and composition of benthic communities – species that live in close association with the seabed and are essential to the ecological balance of our seas.

These findings stem from a recent Italian-Swiss study led by OGS and published in the international journal Global Change Biology. The study is titled “The Geography of Mediterranean Benthic Communities Under Climate Change“.