Rethinking the importance of food quality in marine benthic food webs

N Campanyà-Llovet, PVR Snelgrove… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Current knowledge on the role of food for benthic communities and associated food webs
focuses on quantity of available organic matter; however, the few studies that specifically …

Possible effects of global environmental changes on Antarctic benthos: a synthesis across five major taxa

J Ingels, A Vanreusel, A Brandt, AI Catarino… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Because of the unique conditions that exist around the Antarctic continent, Southern Ocean
(SO) ecosystems are very susceptible to the growing impact of global climate change and …

Benthic food-web structure under differing water mass properties in the southern Chukchi Sea

K Iken, B Bluhm, K Dunton - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2010 - Elsevier
We used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios as markers of food source connections
and trophic position to evaluate whether benthic food-web structure varied among water …

[HTML][HTML] Weak seasonality in benthic food web structure within an Arctic inflow shelf region

AF Ziegler, BA Bluhm, PE Renaud… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is characterized by pronounced seasonality in the quantity and
quality of organic matter exported from the surface ocean. While it is well established that …

Impact of climate change on Arctic macroalgal communities

A Lebrun, S Comeau, F Gazeau, JP Gattuso - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Arctic region faces a warming rate that is more than twice the global average. Sea-ice
loss, increase in precipitation and freshwater discharge, changes in underwater light, and …

Impact of climate change on fishes in complex Antarctic ecosystems

K Mintenbeck, ER Barrera-Oro, T Brey, U Jacob… - Advances in ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Antarctic marine ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change and are
considered to be particularly sensitive because of the adaptation of most organisms to cold …

Trophodynamics and organic matter assimilation pathways in the northeast Chukchi Sea, Alaska

ND McTigue, KH Dunton - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2014 - Elsevier
We analyzed trophic linkages in the northeast Chukchi Sea shelf based on the stable carbon
and nitrogen isotopic analysis of 39 species collected in 2009 and 2010. To decipher …

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 …

Food web structure and seasonality of slope megafauna in the NW Mediterranean elucidated by stable isotopes: relationship with available food sources

V Papiol, JE Cartes, E Fanelli, P Rumolo - Journal of Sea Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The food-web structure and seasonality of the dominant taxa of benthopelagic megafauna
(fishes and decapods) on the middle slope of the Catalan Sea (Balearic Basin, NW …

The shallow benthic food web structure in the high Arctic does not follow seasonal changes in the surrounding environment

M Kędra, K Kuliński, W Walkusz… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Seasonality, quality and quantity of food resources strongly affect fitness and survival of
polar fauna. Most research conducted in polar areas has been carried out during the …