Zooplankton abundances from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas near Point Barrow Alaska during August and September 2009

• Main Authors: Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell, Stephen Okkonen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: zooplankton; marine; Calanus marshallae; Calanus glacialis; Calanus hyperboreus; Oithona similis; Onceae borealis; Acartia longiremis; Neocalanus cristatus; Neocalanus flemingeri; Neocalanus plumchrus; Eucalanus bungii; Thysanoessa longipes; Thysanoessa inermis; Thysanoessa rashii; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Pacific; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; bowhead whale; Chukchi; Climate change; Pacific Arctic; Point Barrow; Zooplankton; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2WP9T76H

The Arctic Ocean ecosystem may respond dramatically to climate change through modification of the physical environment (e.g., hydrography and ice cover). A better understanding of the coupled biological-physical ocean ecosystem, and its interannual variability, is necessary to predict and understand...