“Shrinking glaciers are changing large expanses of northerly coastlines. The speed and pattern of colonization across Stonefly Creek's watershed will aid our understanding of watershed restoration and conservation of biodiversity in a changing climate,” said Alexander Milner, lead researcher from the University of Birmingham in a press release.
The creek began to appear between 1976 and '79 as a glacier melted and revealed the creek's lower reaches. The birth and development of this new creek into a thriving ecosystem was recently described in the journal Ecology.
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