Climate News Network: Antarctic clams (Laternula elliptica) play a vital role in the ocean ecosystem, drawing down carbon into sea-bed sediments and circulating ocean nutrients.
Now a new study has found that the reproductive capacity of this long-lived and abundant species -- existing in the cold, oxygen-rich waters of the Antarctic -- could be seriously affected by rising ocean temperatures.
The study, by scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and from the University of Kiel and the Alfred Wegener Institute...