Copepods' true colors: astaxanthin pigmentation as an indicator of fitness

L Vilgrain, F Maps, S Basedow, E Trudnowska… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pigmentation is often overlooked in zooplankton, since these organisms are mostly colorless
to fit the translucid water medium. However, one of the dominant zooplankton taxa in aquatic …

Increased presence of Atlantic Water on the shelf south-west of Spitsbergen with implications for the Arctic fjord Hornsund

A Strzelewicz, A Przyborska, W Walczowski - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
Atlantic Water is a major contributor to the largest zonal variability in ocean properties and
air-sea-ice interaction in the Nordic Seas and the European Arctic. Climate change has …

Molecular tools prove little auks from Svalbard are extremely selective for Calanus glacialis even when exposed to Atlantification

K Balazy, E Trudnowska, K Wojczulanis-Jakubas… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Two Calanus species, C. glacialis and C. finmarchicus, due to different life strategies and
environmental preferences act as an ecological indicators of Arctic Atlantification. Their high …

Seasonal Enzyme Activities of Sympatric Calanus glacialis and C. finmarchicus in the High-Arctic

M Hatlebakk, B Niehoff, M Choquet, H Hop… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the Arctic shelf seas, the mesozooplankton biomass is dominated by the arctic copepod
Calanus glacialis, but its boreal congeneric C. finmarchicus is expanding northwards. Even …

Dark plumes of glacial meltwater affect vertical distribution of zooplankton in the Arctic

M Szeligowska, E Trudnowska, R Boehnke… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In polar regions, the release of glacial meltwater resulting in turbid plumes is expected to
transform coastal waters with numerous consequences on the marine ecosystem. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Gone with the wind–Wind speed affects prey accessibility for a High Arctic zooplanktivorous seabird, the little auk Alle alle

D Jakubas, K Wojczulanis-Jakubas… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Foraging ecology of chick rearing seabirds is affected mainly by the food availability on
feeding grounds, but it can be also modulated by environmental conditions during the …

Proteomic fingerprinting enables quantitative biodiversity assessments of species and ontogenetic stages in Calanus congeners (Copepoda, Crustacea) from the …

S Rossel, P Kaiser, M Bode‐Dalby… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species identification is pivotal in biodiversity assessments and proteomic fingerprinting by
MALDI‐TOF mass spectrometry has already been shown to reliably identify calanoid …

Red Pigmentation Can Be Used to Reliably Distinguish Between Live Calanus finmarchicus and Calanus glacialis Females in the Fram Strait

PK Lindeque, I Hann, HE Parry, KB Cook… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Copepods from the genus Calanus provide an important lipid-rich food source in the Arctic
marine foodweb. Despite extensive research on Calanus finmarchicus and Calanus …

Environmental niche overlap in sibling planktonic species Calanus finmarchicus and C. glacialis in Arctic fjords

A Weydmann‐Zwolicka, F Cottier, J Berge… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of environmental preferences of the key planktonic species, such as
Calanus copepods in the Arctic, is crucial to understand ecosystem function and its future …

Geographic variation in population structure and grazing features of Calanus glacialis/marshallae in the Pacific Arctic Ocean

M Ishihara, K Matsuno, K Tokuhiro, Y Ando… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Calanus glacialis/marshallae is a dominant zooplankton species in the Pacific Arctic Ocean
that is widely distributed in shelf areas, and it plays a vital role in connecting primary …