Springtail Secrets
Canadian Geographic|July/August 2018

A TINY SPECIES IN ANTARCTICA IS TEACHING SCIENTISTS ABOUT MONUMENTAL CHANGES

John Bennett
Springtail Secrets

IN THE SHADOW of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, tiny creatures harbour clues to ancient environmental changes at the southern end of the world — and to potential future changes around the planet.

Ian Hogg, an ecologist with Polar Knowledge Canada who lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, works with a team of scientists from New Zealand and the United States to comb unexplored areas of Antarctica for information about present and past polar ecosystems.

この記事は Canadian Geographic の July/August 2018 版に掲載されています。

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