Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate

L Ratnarajah, R Abu-Alhaija, A Atkinson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Zooplankton are major consumers of phytoplankton primary production in marine
ecosystems. As such, they represent a critical link for energy and matter transfer between …

In situ microplastic ingestion by neritic zooplankton of the central Mexican Pacific

FL Zavala-Alarcón, JP Huchin-Mian… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are present across the global ocean and can be encountered by many
species, including zooplankton. Although they fall within the size range of zooplankton prey …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and seasonal development of large zooplankton along physical gradients in the Arctic Barents Sea

T Van Engeland, E Bagøien, A Wold… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to ongoing climate change, a new Arctic Ocean ecosystem is emerging. Within the
framework of the Nansen Legacy project, we investigated the community composition of the …

Reduced efficiency of pelagic–benthic coupling in the Arctic deep sea during lower ice cover

I Zhulay, K Iken, PE Renaud, K Kosobokova… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Pelagic–benthic coupling describes the connection between surface-water production and
seafloor habitats via energy, nutrient and mass exchange. Massive ice loss and warming in …

Zooglider‐measured association of zooplankton with the fine‐scale vertical prey field

BM Whitmore, MD Ohman - Limnology and Oceanography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We use Zooglider, a low‐power optical zooplankton‐sensing glider, to test the covariability
of the fine‐scale vertical distributions of six omnivorous zooplankton taxa with three different …

[HTML][HTML] Trophic Position Stability of Benthic Organisms in a Changing Food Web of an Arctic Fjord Under the Pressure of an Invasive Predatory Snow Crab …

AK Zalota, PY Dgebuadze, AD Kiselev, MV Chikina… - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
The introduction of a large predatory snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, into the Kara Sea is a
unique situation where the impact of an invasive species affecting an otherwise undisturbed …

Spatial and interannual patterns of epipelagic summer mesozooplankton community structures in the western Arctic Ocean in 2016–2020

JH Kim, HS La, KH Cho, J Jung… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mesozooplankton play a crucial role as primary or secondary consumers in Arctic
ecosystems and are sensitive indicators of environmental changes. This research is the first …

[HTML][HTML] Ice algae as supplementary food rather than major energy source for the Barents sea zooplankton community

D Kohlbach, H Hop, A Wold, K Schmidt, L Smik… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Barents Sea is a hotspot for environmental change due to global warming.
These changes impact the structure and functioning of the marine ecosystem year-round …

Spatial occurrence and abundance of marine zooplankton in Northeast Greenland

T Beroujon, JS Christiansen, F Norrbin - Marine Biodiversity, 2022 - Springer
We present a large-scale survey of mesozooplankton (size range 0.2–20 mm) across
coastal, shelf, and slope locations in Northeast Greenland (latitudes 74–79° N, August 2015 …

Bycatch data from ichthyoplankton surveys reveal long-term trends in gelatinous zooplankton in the Norwegian and Barents Seas

NA Yaragina, LC Stige… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gelatinous zooplankton play important roles as consumers in marine food webs, but the
spatial and temporal dynamics of them are difficult to quantify because their fragility makes …