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Climate change is causing a gradual increase in temperatures and more frequent extreme temperature extremes, which lead to deoxygenation of aquatic ecosystems. Understanding which species will cope with these changes and which ones will not is crucial to understand how our ecosystems will function in the warmer and deoxygenated oceans of the future. E3 researchers, Can Kahyaoglu, Natascha Borgstein, Michiel Merkx and Ellie Laetz teamed up with Sancia van der Meij (U. Groningen, NL) and Wilco Verberk (U. Nijmegen, NL) to determine if the solar-powered sea slugs inhabiting Dutch waters (Elysia viridis - pictured above) will survive climate change-associated warming and deoxygenation.