Changes in phytoplankton communities along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula: causes, impacts and research priorities

A Ferreira, RR Costa, TS Dotto, R Kerr… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP), located in West Antarctica, is amongst the most
impacted regions by recent warming events. Its vulnerability to climate change has already …

Primary production, an index of climate change in the ocean: satellite-based estimates over two decades

G Kulk, T Platt, J Dingle, T Jackson, BF Jönsson… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Primary production by marine phytoplankton is one of the largest fluxes of carbon on our
planet. In the past few decades, considerable progress has been made in estimating global …

Selective feeding in Southern Ocean key grazers—diet composition of krill and salps

NC Pauli, K Metfies, EA Pakhomov, S Neuhaus… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past decades, two key grazers in the Southern Ocean (SO), krill and salps, have
experienced drastic changes in their distribution and abundance, leading to increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Macronutrient supply, uptake and recycling in the coastal ocean of the west Antarctic Peninsula

SF Henley, RE Tuerena, AL Annett, AE Fallick… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nutrient supply, uptake and cycling underpin high primary productivity over the continental
shelf of the west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Here we use a suite of biogeochemical and …

Environmental drivers of phytoplankton taxonomic composition in an Antarctic fjord

BJ Pan, M Vernet, L Manck, K Forsch, L Ekern… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The impact of ice-ocean interaction on the Southern Ocean is expected to intensify in the
future. However, its influence on phytoplankton community composition remains an open …

Winter condition, physiology, and growth potential of juvenile Antarctic krill

KS Bernard, KB Steinke, JM Fontana - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, substantial efforts have been made to understand the implications of climate
change on Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, because of their pivotal role in the Southern …

Circumpolar deep water impacts glacial meltwater export and coastal biogeochemical cycling along the West Antarctic Peninsula

MR Cape, M Vernet, EC Pettit, J Wellner… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Warming along the Antarctic Peninsula has led to an increase in the export of glacial
meltwater to the coastal ocean. While observations to date suggest that this freshwater …

Polynya dynamics drive primary production in the Larsen A and B embayments following ice shelf collapse

MR Cape, M Vernet, M Kahru… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The climate‐driven collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves have opened up new
regions of the coastal Antarctic to the influence of sea ice resulting in increases in seasonal …

The contribution of ice algae to the winter energy budget of juvenile Antarctic krill in years with contrasting sea ice conditions

KS Bernard, LA Gunther, SH Mahaffey… - ICES Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Krill overwintering strategies vary with ontogeny and year; understanding this variability is
essential to predicting how the species will respond to climate change in the future …

Variability in the carbon and nitrogen uptake rates of phytoplankton associated with wind speed and direction in the Marian Cove, Antarctica

BK Kim, M Jeon, SJ Park, HC Kim, JO Min… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quantifying the temporal variability in phytoplankton productivity is essential for improving
our understanding of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics and energy flows in natural …