[HTML][HTML] In the dark: a review of ecosystem processes during the Arctic polar night

J Berge, PE Renaud, G Darnis, F Cottier, K Last… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Several recent lines of evidence indicate that the polar night is key to understanding Arctic
marine ecosystems. First, the polar night is not a period void of biological activity even …

Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem

P Wassmann, CM Duarte, S Agusti… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we review evidence of how climate change has already resulted in clearly
discernable changes in marine Arctic ecosystems. After defining the term 'footprint'and …

Consequences of changing sea-ice cover for primary and secondary producers in the European Arctic shelf seas: Timing, quantity, and quality

E Leu, JE Søreide, DO Hessen, S Falk-Petersen… - Progress in …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Arctic ice cover poses severe limitations on the productive period of marine autotrophs
that form the base of the marine food web. Sea-ice algae begin to grow in early spring within …

Global climate change and contaminants—an overview of opportunities and priorities for modelling the potential implications for long-term human exposure to organic …

JM Armitage, CL Quinn, F Wania - Journal of Environmental …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This overview seeks to provide context and insight into the relative importance of different
aspects related to global climate change for the exposure of Northern residents to organic …

Unexpected levels of biological activity during the polar night offer new perspectives on a warming Arctic

J Berge, M Daase, PE Renaud, WG Ambrose, G Darnis… - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
The current understanding of Arctic ecosystems is deeply rooted in the classical view of a
bottom-up controlled system with strong physical forcing and seasonality in primary …

Biogenic carbon flows through the planktonic food web of the Amundsen Gulf (Arctic Ocean): A synthesis of field measurements and inverse modeling analyses

A Forest, JÉ Tremblay, Y Gratton, J Martin… - Progress in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Major pathways of biogenic carbon (C) flow are resolved for the planktonic food web of the
flaw lead polynya system of the Amundsen Gulf (southeast Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean) in …

Particulate organic carbon fluxes on the slope of the Mackenzie Shelf (Beaufort Sea): Physical and biological forcing of shelf-basin exchanges

A Forest, M Sampei, H Hattori, R Makabe… - Journal of Marine …, 2007 - Elsevier
To investigate the mechanisms underlying the transport of particles from the shelf to the
deep basin, sediment traps and oceanographic sensors were moored from October 2003 to …

Variations of the abundance and nucleic acid content of heterotrophic bacteria in Beaufort Shelf waters during winter and spring

C Belzile, S Brugel, C Nozais, Y Gratton… - Journal of Marine …, 2008 - Elsevier
Depth profiles of heterotrophic bacteria abundance were measured weekly over a 6-month
period from December to May in Franklin Bay, a 230 m-deep coastal Arctic Ocean site of the …

Carbon biomass, elemental ratios (C:N) and stable isotopic composition (δ13C, δ15N) of dominant calanoid copepods during the winter-to-summer transition in the …

A Forest, V Galindo, G Darnis, S Pineault… - Journal of Plankton …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Calanoid copepods dominate mesozooplankton biomass in the Arctic Ocean. Variations in
C content, C: N ratio and stable isotope composition (δ 13C, δ 15N) of Calanus …

Seasonal and interannual changes in ciliate and dinoflagellate species assemblages in the Arctic Ocean (Amundsen Gulf, Beaufort Sea, Canada)

DFL Onda, E Medrinal, AM Comeau… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have focused on how climate change could drive changes in phytoplankton
communities in the Arctic. In contrast, ciliates and dinoflagellates that can contribute …