(Mytilus trossulus) and Macroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of Historical and Paleontological Evidence Used to Relate Mollusc Distributions to Climate Change

• Main Authors: Howard M. Feder, David W. Norton, Jonathan B. Geller
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Key words; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Barrow; Mytilus; Laminaria; climate change; benthic substrates; marine predation; estuarine refugia; Arctic; Mackenzie River; Pacific; Stefansson; Stefansson Sound; Chukchi; Climate change; Mackenzie river; Peard Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.499.5595; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic56-4-391.pdf

ABSTRACT. Live mussels attached to fresh laminarioid brown algae, all fastened to clusters of pebbles and small cobbles, were repeatedly cast ashore by autumn storms at Barrow, Alaska, in the 1990s. Specimens of Laminaria saccharina and L. solidungula shorten by 100 km a 500 km gap (Peard Bay to Ste...