Polysaccharides from the marine environment with pharmacological, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical potential

N Ruocco, S Costantini, S Guariniello, M Costantini - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Carbohydrates, also called saccharides, are molecules composed of carbon, hydrogen, and
oxygen. They are the most abundant biomolecules and essential components of many …

The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review

TA Douglas, LL Loseto, RW Macdonald… - Environmental …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Environmental context Mercury, in its methylated form, is a neurotoxin that biomagnifies in
marine and terrestrial foodwebs leading to elevated levels in fish and fish-eating mammals …

Late summer phytoplankton distribution along a 3500 km transect in Canadian Arctic waters: strong numerical dominance by picoeukaryotes

G Tremblay, C Belzile, M Gosselin, M Poulin… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2009 - int-res.com
A number of recent studies showed that photosynthetic picoeukaryotes are an active and
often dominant component of Arctic algal assemblages. In order to place these observations …

Exopolysaccharides produced by bacteria isolated from the pelagic Southern Ocean—Role in Fe binding, chemical reactivity, and bioavailability

CS Hassler, E Alasonati, CAM Nichols, VI Slaveykova - Marine Chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
As a result of ubiquitous excretion by micro-organisms, extracellular polymeric substances
are reported in high concentrations in marine systems. The majority of this material is …

Distribution and composition of dissolved extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in Antarctic sea ice

GJC Underwood, S Fietz, S Papadimitriou… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
Concentrations and chemical composition of carbohydrates in dissolved organic carbon
(DOC) and in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from brines, ice cores, gap layers in …

Bioavailability of organically bound Fe to model phytoplankton of the Southern Ocean

CS Hassler, V Schoemann - Biogeosciences, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
Iron (Fe) is known to be mostly bound to organic ligands and to limit primary productivity in
the Southern Ocean. It is thus important to investigate the bioavailability of organically bound …

Transport of trace metals (Mn, Fe, Ni, Zn and Cd) in the Western Arctic Ocean (Chukchi sea and Canada basin) in late summer 2012

Y Kondo, H Obata, N Hioki, A Ooki, S Nishino… - Deep Sea Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Distributions of trace metals (Mn, Fe, Ni, Zn and Cd) in the western Arctic Ocean (Chukchi
Sea and Canada Basin) in September 2012 were investigated to elucidate the mechanisms …

Benthic fluxes of trace metals in the Chukchi Sea and their transport into the Arctic Ocean

LH Vieira, EP Achterberg, J Scholten, AJ Beck… - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chukchi Sea is a primary site for shelf-ocean exchange in the Arctic region and
modifies Pacific-sourced water masses as they transit via the Bering Strait into the Arctic …

Photochemical behavior of dissolved and colloidal organic matter in estuarine and oceanic waters

WZ Zhu, GP Yang, HH Zhang - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM), carbohydrates, and amino acids were
analyzed to investigate the photochemistry of total dissolved (< 0.22 μm) organic matter …

Spatial complexity in dissolved organic matter and trace elements driven by hydrography and freshwater input across the Arctic Ocean during 2015 Arctic …

T Williford, RMW Amon, K Kaiser… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study traces dissolved organic matter (DOM) in different water masses of the Arctic
Ocean and its effect on the distributions of trace elements (TEs; Fe, Cu, Mn, Ni, Zn, Cd) using …