“When we looked at experimentally warmed spiders from the Arctic tundra, we saw the exact same pattern in a controlled environment. This tells us that warming has a consistent ‘browning’ effect on ...

Climate change is altering species distributions across the world, and this is particularly marked in the Arctic where warming is occurring most rapidly. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and ...

No plant or animal is exempt, from the microscopic plankton and crustaceans that fuel the entire Arctic food web, to the region’s iconic belugas and polar bears, or the 200 or so migratory bird ...

A food web is a sprawling map of ecological connections that combines all the different food chains within an ecosystem. Individual food chains contain primary producers, which derive energy from ...

The higher latitudes of the Arctic play a key role in the global climate and are home to many unique ecosystems linked to sea ice. Our destination was the evocatively named "last ice area," a ...

Greenland’s marine ecosystem is experiencing a radical ‘regime change’ ... changes in food webs, and so on. Not many for the Arctic or in sort of remote places like this.

Other animals, like diving seabirds, walruses and seals, then eat those animals, providing this year-round transfer of sea ice carbon into the food web to fuel the ecosystem. 'We think this might be ...

The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton, responds to heatwaves much differently than to constantly elevated temperatures. This has been found by the first targeted ...

It doesn't end up on dinner plates and it lacks the popular appeal of whales and dolphins, but scientists warn that a small fish that is critical to Arctic marine life could be in trouble from ...