Postglacial expansion of the arctic keystone copepod calanus glacialis

• Published in: Marine Biodiversity
• Main Authors: Weydmann, Agata, Przylucka, Aleksandra, Lubosny, Marek, Walczynska, Katarzyna S., Serrao, Ester A., Pearson, Gareth, Burzynski, Artur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Heidelberg 2018
• Subjects: North-Atlantic; Comparative Phylogeography; Zooplankton Community; Population-Genetics; Mitochondrial-Dna; West Greenland; Finmarchicus; Divergence; Fjord; Water; Arctic; Greenland; Hornsund; Calanus glacialis; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; North Atlantic; Zooplankton; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11514; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0774-4

Calanus glacialis, a major contributor to zooplankton biomass in the Arctic shelf seas, is a key link between primary production and higher trophic levels that may be sensitive to climate warming. The aim of this study was to explore genetic variation in contemporary populations of this species to i...