Franz Josef Land: extreme northern outpost for Arctic fishes

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Natalia V. Chernova, Alan M. Friedlander, Alan Turchik, Enric Sala
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Franz Josef Land; Fishes; Climate change; Endemism; Biodiversity; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Barents Sea; Greenland; Hayes; Hayes Island; Waifs; Wilton; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; glacier; Kuhn island; Sebastes mentella; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.692; https://doaj.org/article/7e5646baae164800b232b02fdbf5f57b

The remote Franz Josef Land (FJL) Archipelago is the most northerly land in Eurasia and its fish fauna, particularly in nearshore habitats, has been poorly studied. An interdisciplinary expedition to FJL in summer 2013 used scuba, seines, and plankton nets to comprehensively study the nearshore fish...