Physical manifestations and ecological implications of Arctic Atlantification

RB Ingvaldsen, KM Assmann, R Primicerio… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The Atlantic gateway to the Arctic Ocean is influenced by vigorous inflows of Atlantic Water.
The high-latitude impacts of these inflows have strengthened owing to climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and seasonal development of large zooplankton along physical gradients in the Arctic Barents Sea

T Van Engeland, E Bagøien, A Wold… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to ongoing climate change, a new Arctic Ocean ecosystem is emerging. Within the
framework of the Nansen Legacy project, we investigated the community composition of the …

Borealization impacts shelf ecosystems across the Arctic

B Husson, BA Bluhm, F Cyr, SL Danielson… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is rapidly modifying biodiversity across the Arctic, driving a shift from Arctic
to more boreal ecosystem characteristics. This phenomenon, known as borealization, is …

Optical observations and spatio-temporal projections of gelatinous zooplankton in the Fram Strait, a gateway to a changing Arctic Ocean

D Pantiukhin, G Verhaegen, C Kraan… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Global warming causes profound environmental shifts in the Arctic Ocean, altering the
composition and structure of communities. In the Fram Strait, a transitional zone between the …

Drivers behind the diversity and distribution of a widespread midwater narcomedusa

G Verhaegen, MN Sangekar, B Bentlage… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Narcomedusae play a key role as top‐down regulators in the midwater, the largest and most
understudied biome on Earth. Here, we used ecological niche modeling in three …

Atlantification alters the reproduction of jellyfish Aglantha digitale in the European Arctic

MK Mańko, M Merchel, S Kwaśniewski… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing heat content, salinity, and velocity of the Atlantic water masses passing northward
through the Fram Strait accelerate the transition of the European Arctic toward more Atlantic …

Pan‐Arctic distribution modeling reveals climate‐change‐driven poleward shifts of major gelatinous zooplankton species

D Pantiukhin, G Verhaegen… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities, including climate change, are hypothesized to cause increases in
gelatinous zooplankton population sizes and blooms. In the most rapidly changing …

[HTML][HTML] Fish assemblages at the Yermak Plateau and in northern Svalbard waters during the period 2012–2020

H Gjøsæter, RB Ingvaldsen, EH Hallfredsson… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
During several surveys covering the north-western and northern Svalbard waters, and the
deeper Yermak Plateau north of Svalbard during the period 2012–2020, 291 standardized …

The Arctic summer microbiome across Fram Strait: Depth, longitude, and substrate concentrations structure microbial diversity in the euphotic zone

M Wietz, A Engel, S Ramondenc… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term dynamics of microbial communities across geographic, hydrographic, and
biogeochemical gradients in the Arctic Ocean are largely unknown. To address this, we …

Planktonic tintinnid community structure variations in different water masses of the Arctic Basin

C Wang, X Wang, Z Xu, Q Hao, Y Zhao… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Information on tintinnid community structure variations in different water masses in the Arctic
Basin is scarce. During the summer of 2020, tintinnid diversity and vertical distribution were …