Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services

NS Steiner, J Bowman, K Campbell, M Chierici… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that
the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems …

Southern Ocean food-webs and climate change: A short review and future directions

JP Queirós, R Borras-Chavez, N Friscourt, J Groß… - PLOS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Food-webs are a critical feature of ecosystems and help us understand how communities
will respond to climate change. The Southern Ocean is facing rapid and accelerating …

A novel approach to quantifying trophic interaction strengths and impact of invasive species in food webs

E Calizza, L Rossi, G Careddu, S Sporta Caputi… - Biological …, 2021 - Springer
Measuring ecological and economic impacts of invasive species is necessary for managing
invaded food webs. Based on abundance, biomass and diet data of autochthonous and …

Trophic ecology of epibenthic communities exposed to different sea-ice concentrations across the Canadian Arctic Ocean

G Yunda-Guarin, LN Michel, V Roy, N Friscourt… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sea ice is one of the most critical environmental drivers shaping primary production and
fluxes of organic inputs to benthic communities in the Arctic Ocean. Fluctuations in organic …

Seasonal food web dynamics in the Antarctic benthos of Tethys Bay (Ross Sea): implications for biodiversity persistence under different seasonal sea-ice coverage

SS Caputi, G Careddu, E Calizza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Determining food web architecture and its seasonal cycles is a precondition for making
predictions about Antarctic marine biodiversity under varying climate change scenarios …

Food source diversity, trophic plasticity, and omnivory enhance the stability of a shallow benthic food web from a high‐Arctic fjord exposed to freshwater inputs

G Bridier, F Olivier, L Chauvaud… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Under climate change, many Arctic coastal ecosystems receive increasing amounts of
freshwater, with ecological consequences that remain poorly understood. In this study, we …

Antarctic benthic ecological change

HJ Griffiths, VJ Cummings, A Van de Putte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The benthic community around Antarctica is diverse and highly endemic. These cold-
adapted species are under threat from local and global drivers, including warming …

Reliance of deep-sea benthic macrofauna on ice-derived organic matter highlighted by multiple trophic markers during spring in Baffin Bay, Canadian Arctic

G Yunda-Guarin, TA Brown, LN Michel… - Elem Sci …, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Benthic organisms depend primarily on seasonal pulses of organic matter from primary
producers. In the Arctic, declines in sea ice due to warming climate could lead to changes in …

Strong correlations of sea ice cover with macroalgal cover along the Antarctic Peninsula: Ramifications for present and future benthic communities

CD Amsler, MO Amsler, AG Klein… - Elementa: Science of …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Macroalgal forests dominate shallow hard bottom areas along the northern portion of the
Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Macroalgal biomass and diversity are known to be …

Legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic benthic invertebrates near Rothera Point, Western Antarctic Peninsula

A Krasnobaev, G Ten Dam… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pollutant levels in polar regions are gaining progressively more attention from the scientific
community. This is especially so for pollutants that persist in the environment and can reach …