Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research

J Ingels, RB Aronson, CR Smith, A Baco… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The calving of A‐68, the 5,800‐km2, 1‐trillion‐ton iceberg shed from the Larsen C Ice Shelf
in July 2017, is one of over 10 significant ice‐shelf loss events in the past few decades …

The Falkland Islands marine ecosystem: a review of the seasonal dynamics and trophic interactions across the food web

J van der Grient, S Morley, A Arkhipkin, J Bates… - Advances in Marine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Falkland Islands marine environment host a mix of temperate and subantarctic
species. This review synthesizes baseline information regarding ontogenetic migration …

[HTML][HTML] Close encounters-microplastic availability to pelagic amphipods in sub-antarctic and antarctic surface waters

K Jones-Williams, T Galloway, M Cole… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigated the distribution of plastic debris from the Atlantic portion of the Sub-
Antarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. This region is home to some of the highest …

A system of metrics for the assessment and improvement of aquatic ecosystem models

MR Hipsey, G Gal, GB Arhonditsis, CC Carey… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we introduce the CSPS framework for the hierarchical assessment of aquatic
ecosystem models built on a range of metrics and characteristic signatures relevant to …

[HTML][HTML] A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic

A Purser, L Hehemann, L Boehringer, S Tippenhauer… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
A breeding colony of notothenioid icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947) of globally
unprecedented extent has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The …

Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web

J Seco, S Aparício, AS Brierley, P Bustamante… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biomagnification of mercury (Hg) in the Scotia Sea food web of the Southern Ocean was
examined using the stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon (δ 13 C) as proxies …

Global gradients in species richness of marine plankton functional groups

F Benedetti, N Gruber, M Vogt - Journal of Plankton Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The patterns of species diversity of plankton functional groups (PFGs) remain poorly
understood although they matter greatly for marine ecosystem functioning. Here, we use an …

[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 …

Effects of Atlantification and changing sea‐ice dynamics on zooplankton community structure and carbon flux between 2000 and 2016 in the eastern Fram Strait

S Ramondenc, EM Nöthig, L Hufnagel… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The collection of zooplankton swimmers and sinkers in time‐series sediment traps provides
unique insight into year‐round and interannual trends in zooplankton population dynamics …

Multiple trophic markers trace dietary carbon sources in Barents Sea zooplankton during late summer

D Kohlbach, H Hop, A Wold, K Schmidt… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We investigated diets of 24 Barents Sea zooplankton taxa to understand pelagic food-web
processes during late summer, including the importance of sea ice algae-produced carbon …