Phytoplankton and dimethylsulfide dynamics at two contrasting Arctic ice edges

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: M. Lizotte, M. Levasseur, V. Galindo, M. Gourdal, M. Gosselin, J.-É. Tremblay, M. Blais, J. Charette, R. Hussherr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Barrow Strait; Nares; Nares strait; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1557-2020; https://doaj.org/article/cd107d3815544cb6a2702e74c1c5b07b

Arctic sea ice is retreating and thinning and its rate of decline has steepened in the last decades. While phytoplankton blooms are known to seasonally propagate along the ice edge as it recedes from spring to summer, the substitution of thick multiyear ice (MYI) with thinner, ponded first-year ice...