Physical manifestations and ecological implications of Arctic Atlantification

RB Ingvaldsen, KM Assmann, R Primicerio… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The Atlantic gateway to the Arctic Ocean is influenced by vigorous inflows of Atlantic Water.
The high-latitude impacts of these inflows have strengthened owing to climate change …

Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, KR Arrigo - Nature Climate Change, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and Ocean are drastically altering
the dynamics of phytoplankton, the base of marine ecosystems. This Review addresses four …

Marine snow morphology illuminates the evolution of phytoplankton blooms and determines their subsequent vertical export

E Trudnowska, L Lacour, M Ardyna, A Rogge… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The organic carbon produced in the ocean's surface by phytoplankton is either passed
through the food web or exported to the ocean interior as marine snow. The rate and …

Under-ice phytoplankton blooms: Shedding light on the “invisible” part of Arctic primary production

M Ardyna, CJ Mundy, N Mayot, LC Matthes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The growth of phytoplankton at high latitudes was generally thought to begin in open waters
of the marginal ice zone once the highly reflective sea ice retreats in spring, solar elevation …

Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services

NS Steiner, J Bowman, K Campbell, M Chierici… - Elem Sci …, 2021‏ - online.ucpress.edu
A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that
the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems …

Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life

TM Morganti, BM Slaby, A de Kluijver, K Busch… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Central Arctic Ocean is one of the most oligotrophic oceans on Earth because
of its sea-ice cover and short productive season. Nonetheless, across the peaks of extinct …

What feeds the benthos in the Arctic Basins? Assembling a carbon budget for the deep Arctic Ocean

I Wiedmann, E Ershova, BA Bluhm… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Half of the Arctic Ocean is deep sea (> 1000 m), and this area is currently transitioning from
being permanently ice-covered to being seasonally ice-free. Despite these drastic changes …

Annual cycle of export fluxes of biogenic matter near Hanna Shoal in the northeast Chukchi Sea

C Lalande, JM Grebmeier, RR Hopcroft… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Chukchi Ecosystem Observatory (CEO), a mooring array of subsurface
oceanographic instruments, was established on the northeast Chukchi Sea continental shelf …

Summertime Chlorophyll a and Particulate Organic Carbon Standing Stocks in Surface Waters of the Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean (1991–2015)

EM Nöthig, S Ramondenc, A Haas… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean (AO) has been undergoing dramatic changes during the last two
decades. In addition, the water temperature of the inflow of Atlantic water masses at the …

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 …