Warming water can create a tropical ecosystem, but a fragile one
Warm water discharged into the Sea of Japan let tropical fish flourish in an artificial hot spot
A cutribbon wrasse (Stethojulis interrupta) is one of the tropical species that disappeared from the Otomi Peninsula in Japan after a nearby power plant shut down operations and stopped releasing warm water.
Mark Rosenstein/iNaturalist.org (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)