Flea-like crustaceans that rely on Arctic ice may be using deep ocean currents as a sort of conveyer belt to bring them back to the pack after their ice has drifted out to sea, new research suggests.
If it is indeed how the tiny crustaceans keep from going too far out to sea, it is a clever transportation method that could become their way to survive ice-free Arctic summers as the globe heats up.
"Our findings may ultimately change the perception of ice fauna as a biota imminently threatened by the predicted disappearance of perennial sea ice," the researchers wrote today (Sept. 11) in the journal Biology Letters.
Continued: http://www.livescience.com/23101-ice-loving-crustaceans-ride-arctic-conveyer-belt.html
If it is indeed how the tiny crustaceans keep from going too far out to sea, it is a clever transportation method that could become their way to survive ice-free Arctic summers as the globe heats up.
"Our findings may ultimately change the perception of ice fauna as a biota imminently threatened by the predicted disappearance of perennial sea ice," the researchers wrote today (Sept. 11) in the journal Biology Letters.
Continued: http://www.livescience.com/23101-ice-loving-crustaceans-ride-arctic-conveyer-belt.html
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