The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures?
The warming of our planet is changing the Arctic dramatically. The area covered by sea-ice is shrinking and the ice that is left is younger and thinner. We took part in an expedition to the Arctic, to study how these changes affect organisms living in and under the ice. Following this expedition, we...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/frym.2020.00097 2024-02-11T10:00:10+01:00 The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? Kauko, Hanna M. Fernández-Méndez, Mar Meyer, Amelie Rösel, Anja Itkin, Polona Graham, Robert M. Pavlov, Alexey K. 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00097 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2020.00097/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers for Young Minds volume 8 ISSN 2296-6846 journal-article 2020 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00097 2024-01-26T09:57:53Z The warming of our planet is changing the Arctic dramatically. The area covered by sea-ice is shrinking and the ice that is left is younger and thinner. We took part in an expedition to the Arctic, to study how these changes affect organisms living in and under the ice. Following this expedition, we found that storms can more easily break the thinner ice. Storms form cracks in the sea ice, allowing sunlight to pass into the water below, which makes algal growth possible. Algae are microscopic “plants” that grow in water or sea ice. Storms also brought thick heavy snow, which pushed the ice surface below the water. This flooded the snow and created slush. We discovered that this slush is another good habitat for algae. If Arctic sea ice continues to thin, and storms become more common, we expect that these algal habitats will become more important in the future. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Frontiers (Publisher) Arctic Frontiers for Young Minds 8 |
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The warming of our planet is changing the Arctic dramatically. The area covered by sea-ice is shrinking and the ice that is left is younger and thinner. We took part in an expedition to the Arctic, to study how these changes affect organisms living in and under the ice. Following this expedition, we found that storms can more easily break the thinner ice. Storms form cracks in the sea ice, allowing sunlight to pass into the water below, which makes algal growth possible. Algae are microscopic “plants” that grow in water or sea ice. Storms also brought thick heavy snow, which pushed the ice surface below the water. This flooded the snow and created slush. We discovered that this slush is another good habitat for algae. If Arctic sea ice continues to thin, and storms become more common, we expect that these algal habitats will become more important in the future. |
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Kauko, Hanna M. Fernández-Méndez, Mar Meyer, Amelie Rösel, Anja Itkin, Polona Graham, Robert M. Pavlov, Alexey K. The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? |
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The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? |
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The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? |
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The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? |
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future of the arctic: what does it mean for sea ice and small creatures? |
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