[HTML][HTML] Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle

BB Jørgensen, F Wenzhöfer, M Egger, RN Glud - Earth-science reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The seabed plays a key role in the marine carbon cycle as a) the terminal location of aerobic
oxidation of organic matter, b) the greatest anaerobic bioreactor, and c) the greatest …

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 …

Zooplankton and the ocean carbon cycle

DK Steinberg, MR Landry - Annual review of marine science, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

Comparison of two 16S rRNA primers (V3–V4 and V4–V5) for studies of arctic microbial communities

E Fadeev, MG Cardozo-Mino, JZ Rapp… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are poorly characterized in comparison to other
aquatic environments as to their horizontal, vertical, and temporal turnover. Yet, recent …

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 …

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 …

The polar night shift: seasonal dynamics and drivers of Arctic Ocean microbiomes revealed by autonomous sampling

M Wietz, C Bienhold, K Metfies… - ISME …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Arctic Ocean features extreme seasonal differences in daylight, temperature,
ice cover, and mixed layer depth. However, the diversity and ecology of microbes across …

A tale of two basins: An integrated physical and biological perspective of the deep Arctic Ocean

BA Bluhm, KN Kosobokova, EC Carmack - Progress in Oceanography, 2015‏ - Elsevier
This review paper integrates the current knowledge, based on available literature, on the
physical and biological conditions of the Amerasian and Eurasian basins (AB, EB) of the …

Photosynthetic production in the central Arctic Ocean during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012

M Fernández-Méndez, C Katlein, B Rabe… - …, 2015‏ - bg.copernicus.org
The ice-covered central Arctic Ocean is characterized by low primary productivity due to light
and nutrient limitations. The recent reduction in ice cover has the potential to substantially …

[HTML][HTML] Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine LTER site …

T Soltwedel, E Bauerfeind, M Bergmann, A Bracher… - Ecological …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Time-series studies of arctic marine ecosystems are rare. This is not surprising since polar
regions are largely only accessible by means of expensive modern infrastructure and …