How the saga of Barents Sea snow crab illustrates the complexity of climate change

It's not yet clear what overall effect snow crabs will have on the marine ecosystems of the Barents Sea.

By Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark April 2, 2018
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There’s much more to snow crab than their tasty legs and claws. Especially so in the last few years as these large, cold water Arctic crabs have started showing up in the Barents Sea, where they’ve never been before. The snow crab’s story is a harbinger of climate change complexities on the horizon, and much more.

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