Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean's biological pump

JT Turner - Progress in Oceanography, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The “biological pump” is the process by which photosynthetically-produced organic matter in
the ocean descends from the surface layer to depth by a combination of sinking particles …

Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma

WO Smith Jr, S Trimborn - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The genus Phaeocystis is globally distributed, with blooms commonly occurring on
continental shelves. This unusual phytoplankter has two major morphologies: solitary cells …

High quantities of microplastic in Arctic deep-sea sediments from the HAUSGARTEN observatory

M Bergmann, V Wirzberger, T Krumpen… - … science & technology, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Although mounting evidence suggests the ubiquity of microplastic in aquatic ecosystems
worldwide, our knowledge of its distribution in remote environments such as Polar Regions …

Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice

P Assmy, M Fernández-Méndez, P Duarte, A Meyer… - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and
largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary …

Environmental drivers of under-ice phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, CJ Mundy, MM Mills, L Oziel… - Elem Sci …, 2020‏ - online.ucpress.edu
The decline of sea-ice thickness, area, and volume due to the transition from multi-year to
first-year sea ice has improved the under-ice light environment for pelagic Arctic …

Summertime plankton ecology in Fram Strait—a compilation of long-and short-term observations

EM Nöthig, A Bracher, A Engel, K Metfies… - Polar …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
Between Greenland and Spitsbergen, Fram Strait is a region where cold ice-covered Polar
Water exits the Arctic Ocean with the East Greenland Current (EGC) and warm Atlantic …

Algal export in the Arctic Ocean in times of global warming

C Lalande, EM Nöthig, L Fortier - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐derived data suggest an increase in annual primary production following the loss of
summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The scarcity of field data to corroborate this enhanced …

Carbon export in the seasonal sea ice zone north of Svalbard from winter to late summer

C Dybwad, P Assmy, LM Olsen, I Peeken… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean's seasonal sea ice zone are expected to start
earlier and occur further north with retreating and thinning sea ice cover. The current study is …

Temporal trends in marine litter at three stations of the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Arctic deep sea

KB Parga Martínez, MB Tekman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The deep sea is a major sink for debris; however, temporal changes and underlying
mechanisms of litter accumulation on the seafloor remain unclear. Photographic surveys at …

Variability in under‐ice export fluxes of biogenic matter in the Arctic Ocean

C Lalande, EM Nöthig, R Somavilla… - Global …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
A critical question regarding the organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean is whether the
decline in ice extent and thickness and the associated increase in solar irradiance in the …