Plastic pollution in the Arctic

M Bergmann, F Collard, J Fabres… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Plastic pollution is now pervasive in the Arctic, even in areas with no apparent human
activity, such as the deep seafloor. In this Review, we describe the sources and impacts of …

[HTML][HTML] Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle

BB Jørgensen, F Wenzhöfer, M Egger, RN Glud - Earth-science reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The seabed plays a key role in the marine carbon cycle as a) the terminal location of aerobic
oxidation of organic matter, b) the greatest anaerobic bioreactor, and c) the greatest …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

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 …

High quantities of microplastic in Arctic deep-sea sediments from the HAUSGARTEN observatory

M Bergmann, V Wirzberger, T Krumpen… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Although mounting evidence suggests the ubiquity of microplastic in aquatic ecosystems
worldwide, our knowledge of its distribution in remote environments such as Polar Regions …

[HTML][HTML] Marine litter on deep Arctic seafloor continues to increase and spreads to the North at the HAUSGARTEN observatory

MB Tekman, T Krumpen, M Bergmann - Deep sea research part I …, 2017 - Elsevier
The increased global production of plastics has been mirrored by greater accumulations of
plastic litter in marine environments worldwide. Global plastic litter estimates based on field …

Tying up loose ends of microplastic pollution in the Arctic: distribution from the sea surface through the water column to deep-sea sediments at the HAUSGARTEN …

MB Tekman, C Wekerle, C Lorenz… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent studies have shown that despite its remoteness, the Arctic region harbors some of
the highest microplastic (MP) concentrations worldwide. Here, we present the results of a …

Arctic warming interrupts the Transpolar Drift and affects long-range transport of sea ice and ice-rafted matter

T Krumpen, HJ Belter, A Boetius, E Damm, C Haas… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Sea ice is an important transport vehicle for gaseous, dissolved and particulate matter in the
Arctic Ocean. Due to the recently observed acceleration in sea ice drift, it has been assumed …

Vertical redistribution of principle water masses on the Northeast Greenland Shelf

CVB Gjelstrup, MK Sejr, L de Steur… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Northeast Greenland shelf (NEGS) is a recipient of Polar Water (PW) from the
Arctic Ocean, Greenland Ice Sheet melt, and Atlantic Water (AW). Here, we compile …

A first assessment of microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Hudson Bay and the surrounding eastern Canadian Arctic waters of Nunavut

A Huntington, PL Corcoran, L Jantunen, C Thaysen… - Facets, 2020 - facetsjournal.com
Microplastics are a globally ubiquitous contaminant, invading the most remote regions,
including the Arctic. To date, our understanding of the distribution and sources of …