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Climate change is affecting the Arctic ecosystem
Diatom species Gomphonema, taken from a lake sample near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland for a study on how climate change is affecting the Arctic ecosystem in this area and how different species thrive or falter under changing conditions.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant PRL 1203434, an Arctic System Science program award for "Deciphering the ecology of key diatom taxa to understand climate-induced changes in West Greenland lakes."]
Learn more in the NSF "Science Nation" video Diatom algae populations tell a story about climate change in Greenland. (Date of Image: 2007-2011)
Credit: Jasmine Saros, University of Maine
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