Water browning mediates predatory decimation of the Arctic fairy shrimp Branchinecta paludosa

• Published in: Freshwater Biology
• Main Authors: Lindholm, Markus, Wolf, Raoul, Finstad, Anders, Hessen, Dag O.
• Other Authors: Norges Forskningsråd
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Browning; Norway
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12712; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ffwb.12712; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/fwb.12712

Summary Increased concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in northern watersheds is a concern. Such browning affects aquatic food webs and biodiversity in multiple ways, not least through increased attenuation of short‐wave UV radiation, which may facilitate establishment of new predators. W...