Abstract The Barents Sea has experienced substantial warming over the last few decades
with expansion of relatively warm Atlantic water and reduction in sea ice. Based on a review …

This introduction to the special issue presents an overview of the wide range of results
produced during the European Union project Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society …

The Barents Sea (BS) is a high-latitude shelf ecosystem with important fisheries, high and
historically variable harvesting pressure, and ongoing high variability in climatic conditions …

Sensing limitations have impeded knowledge about how individual predator-prey
interactions build to organized multi-species group behaviour across an ecosystem …

Abstract Zooplankton in the Barents Sea has been monitored by the Institute of Marine
Research in Norway on autumn cruises since 1986, using a standardized procedure with …

Global warming affects marine ecosystems by changing environmental conditions,
ecosystem structure, and ecosystem functioning. In parts of the Arctic, increased sea …

Reductions in Arctic sea ice affect marine food webs through a multitude of direct and
indirect effects. We here analysed direct, indirect, and delayed associations between winter …

The authors have collaborated for the past 40 years on a sequence of initiatives for a range
of fisheries and marine ecosystems projects. These had natural mortality (M) as a common …

Using end-to-end models for ecosystem-based management requires knowledge of the
structure, uncertainty and sensitivity of the model. The Norwegian and Barents Seas (NoBa) …

We review current knowledge about climate change impacts on Arctic seafood production.
Large-scale changes in the Arctic marine food web can be expected for the next 40–100 …