The role of biota in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle

PW Boyd, KR Arrigo, M Ardyna, S Halfter… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean, although relatively understudied owing to its harsh
environment and geographical isolation, has been shown to contribute substantially to …

Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges

I Cetinić, CS Rousseaux, IT Carroll, AP Chase… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ocean color satellites have provided a synoptic view of global phytoplankton for over 25
years through near surface measurements of the concentration of chlorophyll a. While …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Evidence for the impact of climate change on primary producers in the Southern Ocean

MH Pinkerton, PW Boyd, S Deppeler… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Within the framework of the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean
(MEASO), this paper brings together analyses of recent trends in phytoplankton biomass …

Cryptophytes: An emerging algal group in the rapidly changing Antarctic Peninsula marine environments

CRB Mendes, RR Costa, A Ferreira… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a climatically sensitive region where
foundational changes at the basis of the food web have been recorded; cryptophytes are …

[PDF][PDF] Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Climate change is associated with higher phytoplankton biomass and longer blooms in the West Antarctic Peninsula

A Ferreira, CRB Mendes, RR Costa, V Brotas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (West Antarctica) marine ecosystem has undergone
substantial changes due to climate-induced shifts in atmospheric and oceanic temperatures …

Enhanced oceanic CO2 uptake along the rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula

MS Brown, DR Munro, CJ Feehan, C Sweeney… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
The global ocean is an important sink for anthropogenic CO2 (ref.). Nearly half of the
oceanic CO2 uptake occurs in the Southern Ocean. Although the role of the Southern Ocean …

Changing phytoplankton phenology in the marginal ice zone west of the Antarctic Peninsula

JS Turner, H Dierssen, O Schofield, HH Kim… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Climate change is altering global ocean phenology, the timing of annually occurring
biological events. We examined the changing phenology of the phytoplankton accumulation …

The state and future of Antarctic environments in a global context

SL Chown, CM Brooks - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean comprise a critical part of the Earth System. Their
environments are better understood than ever before, yet the region remains poorly …