Polar zoobenthos blue carbon storage increases with sea ice losses, because across-shelf growth gains from longer algal blooms outweigh ice scour mortality in the shallows

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Author: Barnes, David K.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Ryder; Antarc*; Climate change; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517053/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517053/1/Barnes_revised.docx; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13772/full

One of the major climate-forced global changes has been white to blue to green; losses of sea ice extent in time and space around Arctic and West Antarctic seas has increased open water and the duration (though not magnitude) of phytoplankton blooms. Blueing of the poles has increases potential for...