Zooplankton Can Suffer from Light Pollution, Too (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Zooplankton Can Suffer from Light Pollution, Too

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Calanus glacialis is one of the important zooplankton species in the Arctic. A new article in Science Advances shows that light pollution from ships or ocean structures in the polar night have the potential to affect the behaviour of this and other arctic zooplankton.

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Malin Daase, UiT -- The Arctic University of Norway

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