Glacial dimples shelter unique ecosystems

• Autores: Nick Kennedy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3013, 2015, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The planet's ice is anything but barren. An unlikely variety of creatures lives in curious holes on the surface of glaciers--habitats made possible by wind, dust and the sun. A team led by Krzysztof Zawierucha, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Poland, has made the first worldwide survey of invertebrates living in these cryoconite holes. They found 25 species, many unique to this habitat which forms when windblown dust--cryoconite--settles ore glaciers.