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British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic Krill in space as they face paper climate change and overfishing threats.
WWF, StrathClyde University and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have formed a team for pioneer projects.The project compares light patterns combined with satellite and remote detection data, where the population is changed and how it changes over time It includes better understanding. .
Researchers ultimately hope this work will provide information to decision makers and help protect the crustaceans that are often overlooked but often overlooked.
There are only a few centimeters of small creatures, but it plays an important role in the world’s largest animals, including Antarctic Marine ecosystems, penguins, seals and blue whales.
It also helps to drag and store a vast amount of planetary carbon in the atmosphere.
The project, which began at COP29 of the UN Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan in November, recently returned from Antarctic exploration, which recently sampled Krill with Dr. Cait McCarry.
WWF-UK’s Polar Advisor In Rod Downie said: “Antarctic krill is a superhero in the South Sea. These small and insufficient heroes maintain amazing marine life with the beating heart of the South Sea.
“They are reasons why humpback whales migrate thousands of miles every year to feed in ice water around Antarctica. And they are also a climate hero and play an important role in attracting carbon from the surface of the sea.
“But climate change and indicative fishing are dangerous. As the sea ice decreases and industrial fishing, we need to better manage fishing and protect krill habitats within the network of marine protection areas. The Krill ‘Universe’ can provide new tools to help monitor and protect this important species. ”
StrathClyde’s physics and reader David McKee said: “The marine satellite has provided the world’s daily world monitoring since 1997. But recently we have been able to identify signals related to pigments. It changes to krill red.
“This is a breakthrough effort to develop a new method of monitoring krille on the surface, which is known to occur in a huge patch with important food for whales and other important marine species.
“It’s time for time, we hope to support this most important Antarctic international preservation and sustainable management.”
Eating vegetable plankton, discharging, and exoskeleton, Antarctic kills can deliver 0.3 million tons of carbon every day to the deep sea, which is the same as British daily carbon emissions.
However, if the maritime temperature rises, Krill Nursery will lose the protection and reduce the group and move south.
As the cornerstone of Antarctic Food Web on the seabed, scientists say that protecting species is important for maintaining both biodiversity and climate stability.
