Epibenthos dynamics and environmental fluctuations in two contrasting polar carbonate factories (Mosselbukta and Bjørnøy-banken, svalbard)

• Main Authors: Wisshak, Max, Neumann, Hermann, Rüggeberg, Andres, Büscher, Janina V., Linke, Peter, Raddatz, Jacek
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Banken; Bjørnøy; Mosselbukta; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667/full; http://doc.rero.ch/record/327715/files/rue_ede.pdf

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...