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 …

It's what's inside that matters: physiological adaptations of high‐latitude marine microalgae to environmental change

JN Young, K Schmidt - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Marine microalgae within seawater and sea ice fuel high‐latitude ecosystems and drive
biogeochemical cycles through the fixation and export of carbon, uptake of nutrients, and …

Changes in sea-ice protist diversity with declining sea ice in the Arctic Ocean from the 1980s to 2010s

H Hop, M Vihtakari, BA Bluhm, P Assmy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The large declines in Arctic sea-ice age and extent over the last decades could have altered
the diversity of sea-ice associated unicellular eukaryotes (referred to as sea-ice protists). A …

Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis

S Harðardóttir, JS Haile, JL Ray, A Limoges… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Sea ice is a critical component of the Earth's Climate System and a unique habitat. Sea-ice
changes prior to the satellite era are poorly documented, and proxy methods are needed to …

Increases in Arctic sea ice algal habitat, 1985–2018

SM Lim, CM Payne, GL van Dijken, KR Arrigo - Elem Sci Anth, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice algae are responsible for a small but seasonally important pulse
of primary production. Their persistence is threatened by the rapid loss of sea ice from the …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea

M Marquardt, L Goraguer, P Assmy, BA Bluhm… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid decline of Arctic sea ice makes understanding sympagic (ice-associated) biology
a particularly urgent task. Here we studied the poorly known seasonality of sea-ice protist …

Annual phytoplankton dynamics in coastal waters from Fildes Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula

N Trefault, R De la Iglesia, M Moreno-Pino… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Year-round reports of phytoplankton dynamics in the West Antarctic Peninsula are rare and
mainly limited to microscopy and/or pigment-based studies. We analyzed the phytoplankton …

Photophysiological responses of bottom sea-ice algae to fjord dynamics and rapid freshening

ZL Forgereau, BA Lange, R Gradinger… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sea ice algae have a broad salinity tolerance but can experience stress during rapid
decreases in salinity that occur with seasonal ice melt and during ice sample melt. This …

Mapping the in situ microspatial distribution of ice algal biomass through hyperspectral imaging of sea-ice cores

E Cimoli, V Lucieer, KM Meiners, A Chennu… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ice-associated microalgae make a significant seasonal contribution to primary production
and biogeochemical cycling in polar regions. However, the distribution of algal cells is …

A decade of microbial community dynamics on sinking particles during high carbon export events in the eastern Fram Strait

MG Cardozo-Mino, I Salter, EM Nöthig… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Marine sinking particles sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide to the deep ocean via the
biological carbon pump. Understanding how environmental shifts drive changes in the …