Arctic beetles may be ideal marker of climate change

Arctic beetles may be ideal marker of climate change,
April 22, 2015,
McGill University,
Science Daily,

Researchers need to find ways to measure how the changes in climate are affecting biodiversity. One of the best places to look may be down at our feet, at beetles. That's because, as a research team discovered after doing the first large-scale survey of Arctic beetles, these six-legged critters are not only abundant in number but also diverse in feeding habits and what they eat is closely linked to the latitude in which they are found.