The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems

D Lannuzel, L Tedesco, M Van Leeuwe… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic sea-ice-scape is rapidly transforming. Increasing light penetration will initiate
earlier seasonal primary production. This earlier growing season may be accompanied by …

Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, KR Arrigo - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and Ocean are drastically altering
the dynamics of phytoplankton, the base of marine ecosystems. This Review addresses four …

Compendium of 530 metagenome-assembled bacterial and archaeal genomes from the polar Arctic Ocean

M Royo-Llonch, P Sánchez, C Ruiz-González… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The role of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem in climate regulation may depend on the responses
of marine microorganisms to environmental change. We applied genome-resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of two 16S rRNA primers (V3–V4 and V4–V5) for studies of arctic microbial communities

E Fadeev, MG Cardozo-Mino, JZ Rapp… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are poorly characterized in comparison to other
aquatic environments as to their horizontal, vertical, and temporal turnover. Yet, recent …

Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

WN Meier, GK Hovelsrud, BEH Van Oort… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate
system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined over 30%, and all …

Marine‐terminating glaciers sustain high productivity in Greenland fjords

L Meire, J Mortensen, P Meire… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerated mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet leads to glacier retreat and an
increasing input of glacial meltwater to the fjords and coastal waters around Greenland …

Global and regional drivers of nutrient supply, primary production and CO2 drawdown in the changing Arctic Ocean

JÉ Tremblay, LG Anderson, P Matrai, P Coupel… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The main environmental factors driving spatial patterns, variability and change in primary
production (PP) in the Arctic Ocean are reviewed. While instantaneous PP rates are …

[HTML][HTML] Fjords as aquatic critical zones (ACZs)

TS Bianchi, S Arndt, WEN Austin, DI Benn… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

[HTML][HTML] Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer

H Flores, G Veyssière, G Castellani, J Wilkinson… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
As Arctic sea ice deteriorates, more light enters the ocean, causing largely unknown effects
on the ecosystem. Using an autonomous biophysical observatory, we recorded zooplankton …

Food web structure in temporally-forced ecosystems

BC McMeans, KS McCann, M Humphries… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Temporal variation characterizes many of Earth's ecosystems. Despite this, little is known
about how food webs respond to regular variation in time, such as occurs broadly with …