Future Arctic: how will increasing coastal erosion shape nearshore planktonic food webs?

GA Juma, CL Meunier, EM Herstoff… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic regimes. Currently, warming accelerates the erosion of permafrost coasts and the
associated discharge of sediment, carbon, and nutrients into the Arctic Ocean. However, the …

Trophic niches of macrobenthos: Latitudinal variation indicates climate change impact on ecosystem functioning

MJ Silberberger, K Koziorowska‐Makuch… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic food‐web structure and organic matter (OM) utilization are important for marine
ecosystem functioning. In response to environmental changes related to the ongoing climate …

Glacial water: a dynamic microbial medium

G Varliero, PH Lebre, B Frey, AG Fountain, AM Anesio… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities and nutrient dynamics in glaciers and ice sheets continuously
change as the hydrological conditions within and on the ice change. Glaciers and ice sheets …

Size and transparency influence diel vertical migration patterns in copepods

A Barth, R Johnson, J Stone - Limnology and Oceanography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diel vertical migration (DVM) is a widespread phenomenon in aquatic environments. The
primary hypothesis explaining DVM is the predation‐avoidance hypothesis, which suggests …

Tidewater glaciers as “climate refugia” for zooplankton-dependent food web in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

H Hop, A Wold, M Vihtakari, P Assmy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With climate warming, many tidewater glaciers are retreating. Fresh, sediment-rich sub-
glacial meltwater is discharged at the glacier grounding line, where it mixes with deep …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of glacial flour on marine micro-plankton: Evidences from natural communities of Greenlandic fjords and experimental studies

M Maselli, L Meire, P Meire, PJ Hansen - Protist, 2023 - Elsevier
Meltwater runoff from glaciers carries particles, so-called glacial flour that may affect
planktonic organisms and the functioning of marine ecosystems. Protist microplankton is at …

Dark plumes of glacial meltwater affect vertical distribution of zooplankton in the Arctic

M Szeligowska, E Trudnowska, R Boehnke… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In polar regions, the release of glacial meltwater resulting in turbid plumes is expected to
transform coastal waters with numerous consequences on the marine ecosystem. This study …

Biological and Pollution Aerosols on Snow and Ice—Interplay between the Atmosphere and the Cryosphere

Z Dong, H Jiang, G Baccolo, B Di Mauro… - Journal of Earth …, 2023 - Springer
1 BACKGROUND The cryosphere covers a relevant portion of the Earth's surface, playing a
major role for terrestrial and marine biomes (Bosson et al., 2023; Sands et al., 2023; Anesio …

Biogeographic gradients of picoplankton diversity indicate increasing dominance of prokaryotes in warmer Arctic fjords

C Hörstmann, T Hattermann, PC Thomé… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change is opening the Arctic Ocean to increasing human impact and ecosystem
changes. Arctic fjords, the region's most productive ecosystems, are sustained by a diverse …

Short-term sedimentary evidence for increasing diatoms in Arctic fjords in a warming world

FT Fang, ZY Zhu, F Wenger, JZ Ge, JZ Du… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Arctic fjords are hotspots of marine carbon burial, with diatoms playing an essential role in
the biological carbon pump. Under the background of global warming, the proportion of …