are key prey for predators. In more southern areas, the northward shift of zooplankton communities was documented in the North and Norwegian seas (BEAUGRAND et al. 2002), and for benthos in Bering Sea (GREBMEIER et al. 2006). Species distribution shifts in the European Arctic benthos were documented...
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| Summary: | are key prey for predators. In more southern areas, the northward shift of zooplankton communities was documented in the North and Norwegian seas (BEAUGRAND et al. 2002), and for benthos in Bering Sea (GREBMEIER et al. 2006). Species distribution shifts in the European Arctic benthos were documented in detail in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and in the 1950s (BLACKER 1957, PIEPENBURG 2005). Recent examples of this include the reappearance of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) on Svalbard (BERGE et al. 2005). THE FOOD CHAIN The common textbook notion of polar marine ecology is the “short food chain”, typically illustrated as a three-step sequence from diatoms to krill to whales in Antarctic (LAWS 1985). In Arctic waters an example might be diatoms to cope-pods and Little auks (STEMPNIEWICZ et al. 2007) or from |
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