Life under perennial ice-coverage:effects of varying food input on ecology and distributionof smallest benthic organisms in the Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Schewe, Ingo
• Other Authors: Arntz, Wolf, Boetius, Antje
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; deep sea; benthos; food input; ecology; 570; 570 Life sciences; biology; ddc:570; Alpha Ridge; Arctic Ocean; alpha ridge; Arktis*; Foraminifera*; Fram Strait; Lomonosov Ridge
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/2773; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000117790

The present study investigates the influence of ice coverage and various pathways of particulate organic matter on the benthic colonisation of various Arctic deep sea areas. With exception of the Lomonosov Ridge region, central Arctic sediments exhibited generally very low concentrations of plant pi...