Recent climate change in the Arctic and its impact on contaminant pathways and interpretation of temporal trend data

RW Macdonald, T Harner, J Fyfe - Science of the total environment, 2005 - Elsevier
The Arctic has undergone dramatic change during the past decade. The observed changes
include atmospheric sea-level pressure, wind fields, sea-ice drift, ice cover, length of melt …

Phaeocystis blooms in the global ocean and their controlling mechanisms: a review

V Schoemann, S Becquevort, J Stefels… - Journal of Sea …, 2005 - Elsevier
Phaeocystis is a genus of marine phytoplankton with a world-wide distribution. It has a
polymorphic life cycle alternating free-living cells and colonies but develops massive blooms …

Ecology of sea ice biota: 2. Global significance

L Legendre, SF Ackley, GS Dieckmann, B Gulliksen… - Polar biology, 1992 - Springer
The sea ice does not only determine the ecology of ice biota, but it also influences the
pelagic systems under the ice cover and at ice edges. In this paper, new estimates of Arctic …

Parameters of photosynthesis: definitions, theory and interpretation of results

E Sakshaug, A Bricaud, Y Dandonneau… - Journal of Plankton …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
A global assessment of carbon flux in the world ocean is one of the major undertakings of
the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). This has to be undertaken using historical in …

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 …

Observations of modeling of the Antartic phytoplankton crop in relation to mixing depth

BG Mitchell, O Holm-Hansen - Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic …, 1991 - Elsevier
The multi-disciplinary program RACER (Research on Antarctic Coastal Ecosystem Rates)
conducted eight surveys of a 69-station grid in a 100× 250 km area in the southwestern …

Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma

WO Smith Jr, S Trimborn - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The genus Phaeocystis is globally distributed, with blooms commonly occurring on
continental shelves. This unusual phytoplankter has two major morphologies: solitary cells …

The influence of oceanographic processes on pelagic-benthic coupling in polar regions: a benthic perspective

JM Grebmeier, JP Barry - Journal of Marine Systems, 1991 - Elsevier
Benthic community abundance and biomass in polar marine systems is directly influenced
by food supply from the overlying water column. Variability in hydrographic regimes, ice …

Rapid and early export of Phaeocystis antarctica blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

GR DiTullio, JM Grebmeier, KR Arrigo, MP Lizotte… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean is very important for the potential sequestration of carbon
dioxide in the oceans and is expected to be vulnerable to changes in carbon export forced …

Role for A tlantic inflows and sea ice loss on shifting phytoplankton blooms in the B arents S ea

L Oziel, G Neukermans, M Ardyna… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea are highly sensitive to seasonal and interannual
changes in sea ice extent, water mass distribution, and oceanic fronts. With the ongoing …