We used to have many fireflies around midsummer in our garden (in belgium) - until we got ducks, now they are fewer. Their larvae eat slugs and snails, so those ducks compete for the same food. I’d guess “pest control” is a bigger cause for decline than climate, in this case.
This is interesting.
But in most of the world we worry more about rivers carrying too much inorganic nitrogen (mainly from agricultural runoff) to coastal seas, leading to overwhelming algal blooms, anoxia etc. So I wonder why the concern would be the other way around in the Arctic, especially as that ocean gets warmer and the ice-edge retreats, potentially giving more light and heat for the algae to grow?
I’d also guess that there are microplankton which can digest DON (organic nitrogen), so the ecosystem would shift in their favour, until the supply is rebalanced - such processes may be slow in such cold water , but again, it’s getting warmer (especially the Lena recently ).
Eh? AR6 came out three years ago. And you’ve just linked to a report from 25 years ago. Is this “AI” reweaving old threads ?
Well, if this happens it’s convenient to travel overnight, so I’ll probably try it. But I wish they’d go to Ostend or Zeebrugge rather than Dunkirk - many trains to east. Or even just into the real Dunkirk - the city - would be ok, anything better than that huge ugly empty wasteland by the chemical refinery, with no public transport. But of course, this is only for convenience of cars and lorries, not people with legs.