The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems
In the Arctic Ocean, changes caused by global climate warming have been the focus of research for about two decades. Especially the decline and loss of sea ice, but also the increasing inflow of Atlantic Water into the Arctic Ocean or the northward shift of sea-ice formation, are studied processes r...
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ftsubhamburg:oai:ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de:ediss/9048 2023-05-15T14:48:42+02:00 The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems Ehrlich, Julia Brandt, Angelika Flores, Hauke 2021-01-01 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-ediss-93175 https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/9048 eng eng Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-ediss-93175 https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/9048 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Arctic Ocean pack ice zooplankton meiofauna ecosystem biodiversity Eurasian Basin carbon flux 570: Biowissenschaften Biologie 42.94: Meeresbiologie Packeis Meeresökosystem Kohlenstoffkreislauf Arktisforschung Biodiversität Polartiere ddc:570: doctoralThesis doc-type:doctoralThesis 2021 ftsubhamburg 2022-11-09T07:11:54Z In the Arctic Ocean, changes caused by global climate warming have been the focus of research for about two decades. Especially the decline and loss of sea ice, but also the increasing inflow of Atlantic Water into the Arctic Ocean or the northward shift of sea-ice formation, are studied processes related to climate change. Those physical changes will undoubtedly affect the Arctic marine ecosystem. Our knowledge of this unique ecosystem, though, is still incomplete, which makes it difficult to assess the consequences of ongoing climate change. More recently, the research focus has been on the importance of ice algae and phytoplankton for the Arctic marine food web. As the main primary producers, they constitute an important food source for many ice-associated (sympagic) species that rely on the ice-algal bloom in spring and the phytoplankton bloom in summer. Sympagic species are important transmitters of carbon from the sea-ice to pelagic and benthic communities. In order to assess the consequences of environmental changes for sympagic communities, we need to broaden our basic understanding of underlying ecosystem functions, such as biomass or carbon cycling. Following this goal, we used a unique approach to measure physical parameters and sample sympagic organisms of the sea-ice and under-ice environment in the Eurasian Basin. We combined sea-ice coring and trawling with the Surface and Under-ice Trawl. The latter is equipped with an array of sensors to measure environmental parameters, e.g., sea-ice thickness, water temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll a concentration, whilst collecting fauna. The overarching aim of this study is to further our understanding of the Arctic sympagic ecosystem regarding its biodiversity and related ecosystem functions in the Eurasian Basin. Specific objectives are to 1) generate a quantitative inventory of the biodiversity, community structure, and abundance of sea-ice meiofauna and under-ice fauna, 2) characterize physical habitat properties over large scales to identify ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Arctic Arctic Ocean Arktis* Climate change ice algae Phytoplankton Sea ice Zooplankton ediss.sub.hamburg (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Carl von Ossietzky) Arctic Arctic Ocean |
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In the Arctic Ocean, changes caused by global climate warming have been the focus of research for about two decades. Especially the decline and loss of sea ice, but also the increasing inflow of Atlantic Water into the Arctic Ocean or the northward shift of sea-ice formation, are studied processes related to climate change. Those physical changes will undoubtedly affect the Arctic marine ecosystem. Our knowledge of this unique ecosystem, though, is still incomplete, which makes it difficult to assess the consequences of ongoing climate change. More recently, the research focus has been on the importance of ice algae and phytoplankton for the Arctic marine food web. As the main primary producers, they constitute an important food source for many ice-associated (sympagic) species that rely on the ice-algal bloom in spring and the phytoplankton bloom in summer. Sympagic species are important transmitters of carbon from the sea-ice to pelagic and benthic communities. In order to assess the consequences of environmental changes for sympagic communities, we need to broaden our basic understanding of underlying ecosystem functions, such as biomass or carbon cycling. Following this goal, we used a unique approach to measure physical parameters and sample sympagic organisms of the sea-ice and under-ice environment in the Eurasian Basin. We combined sea-ice coring and trawling with the Surface and Under-ice Trawl. The latter is equipped with an array of sensors to measure environmental parameters, e.g., sea-ice thickness, water temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll a concentration, whilst collecting fauna. The overarching aim of this study is to further our understanding of the Arctic sympagic ecosystem regarding its biodiversity and related ecosystem functions in the Eurasian Basin. Specific objectives are to 1) generate a quantitative inventory of the biodiversity, community structure, and abundance of sea-ice meiofauna and under-ice fauna, 2) characterize physical habitat properties over large scales to identify ... |
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The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems |
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The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems |
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The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems |
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The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems |
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The role of biodiversity for ecosystem functions in polar sea-ice ecosystems |
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Arctic Arctic Ocean Arktis* Climate change ice algae Phytoplankton Sea ice Zooplankton |
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