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 …

Antarctic benthic ecological change

HJ Griffiths, VJ Cummings, A Van de Putte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The benthic community around Antarctica is diverse and highly endemic. These cold-
adapted species are under threat from local and global drivers, including warming …

Individual diet variability shapes the architecture of Antarctic benthic food webs

S Sporta Caputi, JP Kabala, L Rossi, G Careddu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Antarctic biodiversity is affected by seasonal sea-ice dynamics driving basal resource
availability. To (1) determine the role of intraspecific dietary variability in structuring benthic …

Influences of submerged plant collapse on diet composition, breadth, and overlap among four crane species at Poyang Lake, China

J Hou, L Li, Y Wang, W Wang, H Zhan, N Dai, P Lu - Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 - Springer
Background Interannual variation in resource abundance has become more unpredictable,
and food shortages have increasingly occurred in the recent decades. However, compared …

Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research

J Ingels, RB Aronson, CR Smith, A Baco… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The calving of A‐68, the 5,800‐km2, 1‐trillion‐ton iceberg shed from the Larsen C Ice Shelf
in July 2017, is one of over 10 significant ice‐shelf loss events in the past few decades …

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 …

Seasonal food web dynamics in the Antarctic benthos of Tethys Bay (Ross Sea): implications for biodiversity persistence under different seasonal sea-ice coverage

SS Caputi, G Careddu, E Calizza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Determining food web architecture and its seasonal cycles is a precondition for making
predictions about Antarctic marine biodiversity under varying climate change scenarios …

Increased sea ice cover alters food web structure in East Antarctica

LN Michel, B Danis, P Dubois, M Eleaume, J Fournier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In recent years, sea ice cover along coasts of East Antarctica has tended to increase. To
understand ecological implications of these environmental changes, we studied benthic …

Shallow-water benthic communities on soft bottoms of a sub-arctic fjord (Southern Barents Sea, Russia) along a gradient of ecological factors

LV Pavlova, YA Zuyev, AG Dvoretsky - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Kola Bay is the most developed coastal area in the Russian part of the Barents Sea, but
despite a long history of research, information about the local shallow-water benthic …

The role of alien fish (the centrarchid Micropterus salmoides) in lake food webs highlighted by stable isotope analysis

ML Costantini, P Carlino, E Calizza… - Freshwater …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native freshwater fish species can have adverse ecological impacts on native
populations. However, the mechanisms determining the success or otherwise of their …