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Deep Sea Newshttp://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/02/climate_induced_collapse_of_de.php [Deep Sea News] Beginning with Victorian science and progressing through the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was that the deep sea was a stable ecosystem. Organisms, and the communities that contained them, were unchanging because the deep ocean was buffered against climatic variability.

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