Monday, March 7, 2011
Sea-Ice Algae
ScienceDaily (2011-03-07) -- Sea-ice algae -- the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean -- can engineer ice to its advantage. The same gel-like mucus secreted by sea-ice algae as a kind of antifreeze against temperatures well below minus 10 C is also aallowing algae to sculpt microscopic channels and pores in ice that are hospitable to itself and other microorganisms.
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