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6 September 2023 / ArcticToday / Eilís Quinn, the Barents Observer
Background

Retreating sea ice in Arctic affecting zooplankton behaviour

“Particularly when it comes to the topmost 20 metres of the water column, just below the sea ice, there was no available data on the zooplankton,” Hauke Flores, a researcher from the  Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI),said in a statement. “But it’s precisely this hard-to-reach area that’s most interesting,

Comment from Rebekah Arnold:

Study of zooplankton behavior and retreating sea ice may have affects on other harvested animals


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