Researchers Examined Data Collected Between 1985 and 2006 on Diversity

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Researchers examined data collected between 1985 and 2006 on diversity of fish in the North Sea, average bottom temperatures, and how species diversity was affected by temperature. According to the figure, what did they find? What did they conclude about the cause of the change in fish diversity?

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