Habitat characteristics and carbonate cycling of macrophyte-supported polar carbonate factories (Svalbard) - Cruise No. MSM55 - June 11 - June 29, 2016 - Reykjavik (Iceland) - Longyearbyen (Norway)

• Main Authors: Wisshak, Max, Bartholomä, Alexander, Beuck, Lydia, Büscher, Janina, Form, Armin, Freiwald, André, Halfar, Jochen, Hetzinger, Steffen, Van Heugten, Bart, Hissmann, Karen, Holler, Peter, Meyer, Neele, Neumann, Hermann, Raddatz, Jacek, Rüggeberg, Andres, Teichert, Sebastian, Wehrmann, Achim
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie 2017
• Subjects: Earth Science; Earth sciences and geology; Arctic; Svalbard; Longyearbyen; Svalbard Archipelago; Norway; Main Island; Banken; Mosselbukta; Bjørnøy; Climate change; Iceland; Ocean acidification; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cr_msm55; https://www.tib.eu/suchen/id/awi:adbf584471ee5378160785fe60cae519190b3596

Expedition 55 of RV MARIA S. MERIAN, referred to by the acronym ARCA, targeted on two contrasting sites of intense biogenic carbonate production in the coastal waters of the arctic Svalbard Archipelago. These are the rhodolith beds in Mosselbukta in the far North of the archipelagos main island Spit...