Sea Ice
What’s here?
This section provides images and background on the groups of organisms that call the sea ice their home. It is intended to be primarily visual, and provide brief detail, natural history, and known distribution of species.
The site is currently being revised, and will ultimately include detailed species information pages. It will grow over time as more images are collected. Higher resolution versions of most images are available upon request.
The Arctic sea ice and its related biota are unique, and its year-round persistence has allowed the development of species not found anywhere else. The specialized ice-associated community within the sea ice is found in the tiny network of pores and channels, and at the ice-water interface. The organisms living within the sea ice are generally small compared to the other realms.
More on sea ice communities & diversity...
Page Author: Rolf Gradinger
Created: January 4, 2008
