Deep-sea megabenthos communities of the Eurasian Central Arctic are influenced by ice-cover and sea-ice algal falls

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Rybakova, E., Kremenetskaia, A., Vedenin, A., Boetius, A., Gebruk, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Amundsen Basin; Arctic; North Pole; amundsen basin; Nansen Basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-B9F9-2; http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-64A8-C

Quantitative camera surveys of benthic megafauna were carried out during the expedition ARK-XXVII/3 to the Eastern Central Arctic Basins with the research icebreaker Polarstern in summer 2012 (2 August-29 September). Nine transects were performed for the first time in deep-sea areas previously fully...