Assessing drivers of coastal primary production in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Rozema, Patrick D., Kulk, Gemma, Veldhuis, Michiel P., Buma, Anita G. J., Meredith, Michael P., van de Poll, Willem H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/a0b52329-7d72-40c4-a84d-c2a43af72eb7; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/a0b52329-7d72-40c4-a84d-c2a43af72eb7; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00184; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/42730911/Rozema_et_al_2017_rats_production_models.pdf

The coastal ocean of the climatically-sensitive west Antarctic Peninsula is experiencing changes in the physical and (photo)chemical properties that strongly affect the phytoplankton. Consequently, a shift from diatoms, pivotal in the Antarctic food web, to more mobile and smaller flagellates has be...