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

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Wisshak, Max, Neumann, Hermann, Rüggeberg, Andres, Büscher, Janina V., Linke, Peter, Raddatz, Jacek
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: polar environments; nutrient regime; stable isotopes; aqueous carbonate system; feeding activity; motion tracking; macrobenthos biodiversity; carbonate factories; Arctic; Banken; Bjørnøy; Mosselbukta; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6428979; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667/full#h9

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...