Global distribution, diversity, and ecological niche of Picozoa, a widespread and enigmatic marine protist lineage

P Huber, D De Angelis, H Sarmento, S Metz, CR Giner… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background The backbone of the eukaryotic tree of life contains taxa only found in molecular
surveys, of which we still have a limited understanding. Such is the case of Picozoa, an …

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 …

Endemic, cosmopolitan, and generalist taxa and their habitat affinities within a coastal marine microbiome

CC James, AE Allen, RH Lampe, A Rabines… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The relative prevalence of endemic and cosmopolitan biogeographic ranges in marine
microbes, and the factors that shape these patterns, are not well known. Using prokaryotic …

Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Ecosystem

AA Fong, CJM Hoppe, N Aberle, CJ Ashjian… - Elem Sci …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
The international and interdisciplinary sea-ice drift expedition “The Multidisciplinary drifting
Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate”(MOSAiC) was conducted from October 2019 to …

Biogeographic analysis suggests two types of planktonic prokaryote communities in the Barents Sea

Z Namsaraev, A Kozlova, F Tuzov, A Krylova, A Izotova… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Of all the Arctic seas, the prokaryotic communities of the Barents Sea are
the most affected by climate change and are strongly influenced by microbiota from the …

Arctic phytoplankton microdiversity across the marginal ice zone: Subspecies vulnerability to sea-ice loss

CG Ribeiro, A Lopes dos Santos… - Elementa: Science of …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Seasonal phytoplankton blooms are important Arctic phenomena, contributing to global
primary production and biogeochemical cycling. The decline in sea-ice extent and thickness …

Metabarcoding of microeukaryotes in surface sediments from the Pacific Arctic and adjacent sea areas: The role of diatoms in the biological pump

L Peng, C Xie, M Wang, J Gu, Y Zhang, T Jiang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
To better understand the importance of diatoms in carbon burial and biological pumps in the
Pacific Arctic, we analyzed the microeukaryotic assemblages in twenty-six surface …

[HTML][HTML] Sediment DNA metabarcoding and morphology provide complementary insight into macrofauna and meiobenthos response to environmental gradients in an …

M Mazurkiewicz, J Pawłowska, IB Angeles… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Arctic fjords ecosystems are highly dynamic, with organisms exposed to various natural
stressors along with productivity clines driven by advection of water masses from shelves …

Environmental selection and advective transport shape the distribution of two cyst-forming Acantharia clades in the Canadian Arctic

M Thaler, A Labarre, C Lovejoy - Journal of Plankton Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Anthropogenic induced climate perturbations are seen in changes in oceanic circulation
patterns, and Arctic water masses defined by salinity are vulnerable to change …