📝 Module 7 Section 2 - Exercise 6

This prompts another question: will the species survive as global warming reduces the extent of Arctic sea ice? One possibility is that warmer weather will bring more productivity to the region's ecosystems, making it less important to find food out on the ice. A likely side effect, however, is the range expansion of red foxes: larger rivals that historically were absent from the Far North, but now are increasingly spreading into the Arctic fox's domain. The current view among many experts is that Arctic foxes will survive, but only on remote islands in greatly reduced numbers. Of course, in the absence of ice, their wandering ways would become a thing of the past.