Here's what this means for the Arctic ecosystem. Menu. Surprise! Look: 3 unexpected creatures solve an Arctic food chain mystery. Atlantic cod at the North Pole? It's more likely than you think.

Aarhus University. (2025, June 13). Toxic tides: Centuries-old mercury is flooding the arctic food chain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 ...

A food web is a sprawling map of ecological connections that combines all the different food chains within an ecosystem. Individual food chains contain primary producers, which derive energy from ...

Climate change sparks Alaska farm boom 02:33. Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic's fast ...

The dovekie (Alle alle) is key to the Arctic ecosystem: It fertilizes the land and is a food source for many other species. Its decline ripples through the plant world and up the food chain. Image ...

Algae is important to the food chain in the Arctic, however too much can have negative effects on the ecosystem. There are concerns about the long-term impacts.

Long term damage. Mercury is a toxic metal that poses a threat to both humans and other wildlife. "Mercury builds up in the food chain over time, and continued exposure, even at low levels, can ...

Other animals, like diving seabirds, walruses and seals, then eat those animals, providing this year-round transfer of sea ice carbon into the food web to fuel the ecosystem. 'We think this might be ...