Assessing drivers of coastal phytoplankton productivity in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Rozema, Patrick D., Kulk, Gemma, Veldhuis, Michael P., Buma, Anita J.G., Meredith, Michael P., van de Poll, Willem H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516194/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516194/1/fmars-04-00184.pdf; http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00184/full

The coastal ocean of the climatically-sensitive west Antarctic Peninsula is experiencing changes in the physical and (photo)chemical properties that strongly affect the phytoplankton. Consequently, a shift from diatoms, pivotal in the Antarctic food web, to more mobile and smaller flagellates has be...