Abstract The northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are areas in the Pacific Arctic characterized
by high northward advection of Pacific Ocean water, with seasonal variability in sea ice …

Increased public awareness of the global significance of polar regions and opening of the
Russian Arctic to foreign researchers have led to a pronounced intensification of benthic …

Antarctic coastal polynyas are areas of reduced sea ice cover within the ice pack and their
associated surface waters are noted for sustaining enhanced levels of biological production …

We used stable carbon (l3C/I2C) and nitrogen (fS~/'") isotope analysis to investigate
linkages between sources of primary production and the pelagic and benthic components of …

Deep-sea benthic ecosystems are sustained largely by organic matter settling from the
euphotic zone. These fluxes usually have a more or less well-defined seasonal component …

Arctic benthic organisms of various taxa (Anthozoa, Polychaeta, Pantopoda, Crustacea,
Echinodermata) were collected on the shelves off northeast Greenland, Spitsbergen and the …

Tight coupling between pelagic and benthic communities is accepted as a general principle
on Arctic shelves. Whereas this paradigm has been useful for guiding ecological research, it …

We used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios as markers of food source connections
and trophic position to evaluate whether benthic food-web structure varied among water …

We assessed the digestibility and utilization of ice algae and phytoplankton by the shallow,
subtidal benthos in Ny Ålesund (Kongsfjord) on Svalbard (79 N, 12 E) using chlorophyll a …

We compare and contrast the ecological impacts of atmospheric and oceanic circulation
patterns on polar and sub-polar marine ecosystems. Circulation patterns differ strikingly …