David Barnes, British Antarctic Survey:   Last week we have put out two new papers about blue carbon ecosystem services on polar continental shelves.  Unlike elsewhere there is evidence that some ecosystem services in polar seabeds are actually increasing with sea ice losses providing a powerful feedback against climate change.  I hope these abstracts at least give non-specialists an insight into why polar biodiversity is so valuable to society.  The links are below:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13772/full

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179735