Effects of Oil and Chemically Treated Oil on Primary Productivity of High Arctic Ice Algae Studied in Situ

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Cross, William E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Algae; Canada. Baffin Island Oil Spill Project; Chlorophyll; Environmental impacts; Marine oil spills; Oil spill dispersants; Phytoplankton; Plant ecology; Primary production (Biology); Sea ice; Sea ice ecology; Hatt; Cape; waters; Nunavut; Ragged Channel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Hatt; Arctique*; Baffin; ice algae
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64874

Control data on the ice algal bloom at Cape Hatt, northern Baffin Island, during 18 May-2 June 1982 were typical of those at other arctic locations. Ice algae were dominated by pennate diatoms (80% of total cells), particularly Nitzschia grunowii (55%) and N. frigida (15%). In various locations and...