For more than five decades, research has been conducted at Ny-Ålesund, in Svalbard,
Norway, to understand the structure and functioning of High-Arctic ecosystems and the …

Progressive fragmentation of larger plastic debris due to the mechanical action of
wind/waves, prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation, or biological degradation has led to …

Abstract The Arctic Ocean is undergoing drastic changes due to the effects of climate
change. Arctic fjords are preferred systems to study these changes as they respond quickly …

Nitrogen-fixing or diazotrophic microbes fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3+)
using nitrogenase enzyme and play a crucial role in regulating marine primary productivity …

Kongsfjorden, a high Arctic fjord was used as a model site to test the hypothesis that source
and biochemical composition of particulate organic matter (POM) exert strong selective …

Macroalgae are abundant in coastal Arctic habitats and contain a large amount of
polysaccharides. Increased macroalgal productivity due to warmer temperatures and …

Marine archaea are a significant component of the global oceanic ecosystems, including the
polar oceans. However, only a few attempts have been made to study archaea in the high …

Natural ecosystems are under stress due to climate change and impacts are especially
prominent at high latitudes. Manifestations of these changes include northward shifts in the …

The assembly processes that underlie the composition and connectivity of free-living (FL)
and particle-associated (PA) bacterial communities from surface to deep waters remain little …

Ongoing climate change in the Arctic has caused tidewater glaciers to retreat while
increasing the discharge of freshwater and terrestrial material into fjords. This can affect both …