Arctic kelp forests: Diversity, resilience and future

K Filbee-Dexter, T Wernberg, S Fredriksen… - Global and planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth and it is a sentinel region for
understanding the range and magnitude of planetary changes, and their impacts on …

Antarctic pelagic ecosystems on a warming planet

O Schofield, M Cimino, S Doney, A Friedlaender… - Trends in ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
High-latitude pelagic marine ecosystems are vulnerable to climate change because of the
intertwining of sea/continental ice dynamics, physics, biogeochemistry, and food-web …

Mercury biomagnification in benthic, pelagic, and benthopelagic food webs in an Arctic marine ecosystem

IR Hilgendag, HK Swanson, CW Lewis… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous toxic metal that biomagnifies in food webs, and can reach high
concentrations in top predators. Evaluating Hg biomagnification in Arctic marine food webs …

Macroalgal detritus and food-web subsidies along an Arctic fjord depth-gradient

PE Renaud, TS Løkken, LL Jørgensen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Detrital carbon production and export in high latitude kelp forests

MF Pedersen, K Filbee-Dexter, KM Norderhaug… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The production and fate of seaweed detritus is a major unknown in the global C-budget.
Knowing the quantity of detritus produced, the form it takes (size) and its timing of delivery …

The adaptive capacity of lake food webs: from individuals to ecosystems

BC McMeans, KS McCann, TD Tunney… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic ecosystems support size structured food webs, wherein predator‐prey body sizes
span orders of magnitude. As such, these food webs are replete with extremely generalized …

Sedimentary organic matter sources, benthic consumption and burial in west Spitsbergen fjords–Signs of maturing of Arctic fjordic systems?

A Zaborska, M Włodarska-Kowalczuk… - Journal of Marine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mature ecosystems sequester little organic carbon (C org) in sediments, as the complex and
effective food webs consume most available organic matter within the water column and …

Spatial and temporal variation of an ice-adapted predator's feeding ecology in a changing Arctic marine ecosystem

DJ Yurkowski, SH Ferguson, CAD Semeniuk… - Oecologia, 2016 - Springer
Spatial and temporal variation can confound interpretations of relationships within and
between species in terms of diet composition, niche size, and trophic position (TP). The …

Latitudinal variation in ecological opportunity and intraspecific competition indicates differences in niche variability and diet specialization of Arctic marine predators

DJ Yurkowski, S Ferguson, ES Choy… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Individual specialization (IS), where individuals within populations irrespective of age, sex,
and body size are either specialized or generalized in terms of resource use, has …

Macroalgal input into the coastal food web along a gradient of seasonal sea ice cover along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

K Iken, CD Amsler, KB Gorman, AG Klein… - Marine Ecology …, 2023 - int-res.com
Coastal food webs that are supported by multiple primary producer sources are considered
to be more stable against perturbations. Here, we investigated how declining macroalgal …