Chlorophyll a concentration and zooplankton abundance and biomass below melting sea ice in the Amundsen Gulf

• Main Authors: Hop, Haakon, Mundy, Christopher John, Gosselin, Michel, Rossnagel, Andrea L, Barber, David G
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Amundsen Gulf; Arctic; Calanus glacialis; Darnley Bay; Franklin Bay; International Polar Year; Phytoplankton; Polar Biology; Sea ice; Zooplankton; Copepods
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811354; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811354

Early summer in the Arctic with extensive ice melt and break-up represents a dramatic change for sympagic-pelagic fauna below seasonal sea ice. As part of the International Polar Year-Circumpolar Flaw Lead system study (IPY-CFL), this investigation quantified zooplankton in the meltwater layer below...