Black-legged kittiwakes as messengers of Atlantification in the Arctic

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Vihtakari, Mikko, Welcker, Jorg, Moe, Børge, Chastel, Olivier, Tartu, Sabrina, Hop, Haakon, Bech, Claus, Descamps, Sébastien, Gabrielsen, Geir Wing
• Other Authors: Norwegian Polar Institute, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norvegian Polar Research Institute (NPRI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Svalbard; Kongsfjord; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; polar cod; Sea ice; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01698404; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-19118-8

International audience Climate warming is rapidly altering marine ecosystems towards a more temperate state on the European side of the Arctic. However, this “Atlantification” has rarely been confirmed, as long-term datasets on Arctic marine organisms are scarce. We present a 19-year time series (19...