Thriving Arctic Bottom Dwellers Could Get Strangled by Warming
Many biologists hypothesize that climate change could hurt the Arctic benthos and the large creatures that live off it by wiping out ice (and hence ice algae), lengthening growing seasons for zooplankton, and giving warm- water species a foothold. “The way the system works now is very much in favor of the benthos,” says UAF polar ecologist Rolf Gradinger. “If the sys- tem changes, things could go downhill fast.”
Credits: SCIENCE VOL 315 16 MARCH 2007
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