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Ocean Hotspots

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What she was interested in was marine [blank] things like seals. And she found three places in the oceans which were [blank] , and what these had in common was that these hotspots were all located at [blank] between ocean currents, and this seems to be the sort of place that has lots of the plankton that some of these [blank] feed on. So now people who want to protect the species that are [blank] need to get as much information as possible. For example, there's an international project called the Census of Marine.

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What she was interested in was marine mammals things like seals. And she found three places in the oceans which were hotspots , and what these had in common was that these hotspots were all located at boundaries between ocean currents, and this seems to be the sort of place that has lots of the plankton that some of these species feed on. So now people who want to protect the species that are endangered need to get as much information as possible. For example, there's an international project called the Census of Marine.
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