‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard)

• Published in: Geobiology
• Main Authors: Wisshak, Max, Meyer, Neele, Kuklinski, Piotr, Rüggeberg, Andres, Freiwald, André, Meyer, Neele; 1Marine Research Department Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven Germany, Kuklinski, Piotr; 2Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Sopot Poland, Rüggeberg, Andres; 3Department of Geosciences University of Fribourg Fribourg Switzerland, Freiwald, André; 1Marine Research Department Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven Germany
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: ddc:593.6; ddc:528.58; settlement experiment; hard‐bottom communities; carbonates; marine calcifiers; biodiversity; microbioerosion; ichnodiversity; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Mosselbukta; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12469; http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9837

Rhodolith beds and bioherms formed by ecosystem engineering crustose coralline algae support the northernmost centres of carbonate production, referred to as polar cold‐water carbonate factories. Yet, little is known about biodiversity and recruitment of these hard‐bottom communities or the bioerode...