Epibenthos Dynamics and Environmental Fluctuations in Two Contrasting Polar Carbonate Factories (Mosselbukta and Bjørnøy-Banken, Svalbard)

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Max Wisshak, Hermann Neumann, Andres Rüggeberg, Janina V. Büscher, Peter Linke, Jacek Raddatz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: carbonate factories; polar environments; nutrient regime; aqueous carbonate system; stable isotopes; macrobenthos biodiversity; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Banken; Mosselbukta; Bjørnøy; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667; https://doaj.org/article/9b9e2702bdf84e64ac607569f0868ae3

The Arctic Svalbard Archipelago hosts the world’s northernmost cold-water ‘carbonate factories’ thriving here despite of presumably unfavourable environmental conditions and extreme seasonality. Two contrasting sites of intense biogenic carbonate production, the rhodolith beds in Mosselbukta in the...