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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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:51030 2023-05-15T14:27:00+02:00 The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? Kauko, Hanna M. Fernandez-Mendez, Mar Meyer, Amelie Rösel, Anja Itkin, Polona Graham, Robert M. Pavlov, Alexey K. 2020-10-28 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51030/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51030/1/frym-08-00097.pdf https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00097 en eng Frontiers https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51030/1/frym-08-00097.pdf Kauko, H. M., Fernandez-Mendez, M., Meyer, A., Rösel, A., Itkin, P., Graham, R. M. and Pavlov, A. K. (2020) The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures?. Open Access Frontiers for Young Minds, 8 . Art.Nr. 97. DOI 10.3389/frym.2020.00097 <https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00097>. doi:10.3389/frym.2020.00097 cc_by_4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00097 2023-04-07T15:52:52Z 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 Arctic Sea ice OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) 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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The Future of the Arctic: What Does It Mean for Sea Ice and Small Creatures? |
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