Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic
Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep40850 The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary production. One critical challenge is to understand how productivity wi...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/11826 2023-05-15T14:23:04+02:00 Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic Assmy, Philipp Fernández-Méndez, Mar Duarte, Pedro Meyer, Amelie Randelhoff, Achim Mundy, Christopher John Olsen, Lasse Kauko, Hanna M. Bailey, Allison Chierici, Melissa Cohen, Lana Doulgeris, Anthony Paul Ehn, Jens K. Fransson, Agneta Gerland, Sebastian Hop, Haakon Hudson, Stephen R. Hughes, Nick Itkin, Polona Johnsen, Geir King, Jennifer A. Koch, Boris P. Koenig, Zoe Kwasniewski, Slawomir Laney, Samuel R. Nikolaus, Marcel Pavlov, Alexey K. Polashenski, Christopher M. Provost, Christine Rösel, Anja Sandbu, Marthe Spreen, Gunnar Smedsrud, Lars H. Sundfjord, Arild Taskjelle, Torbjørn Tatarek, Agnieszka Wiktor, Josef Wagner, Penelope Mae Wold, Anette Steen, Harald Granskog, Mats A. 2017-01-19 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11826 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40850 eng eng Nature Publishing Group: Scientific Reports EC/FP7: 603887 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/FRINATEK/221961/NORWAY/Solar Transmittance in the Arctic as a Seasonally Ice-covered Sea// info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SFF/223254/NORWAY/Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems/AMOS/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SFI/237906/NORWAY/Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations/CIRFA/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/ROMFORSK/222681/NORWAY/Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait// info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/POLARPROG/244646/NORWAY/Ice-algal and under-ice phytoplankton bloom dynamics in a changing Arctic icescape// Assmy P. et. al.: Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic. Scientific Reports. 2017;7:1-9 FRIDAID 1435403 doi:10.1038/srep40850 2045-2322 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11826 openAccess VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497 VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2017 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40850 2021-06-25T17:55:29Z Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep40850 The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary production. One critical challenge is to understand how productivity will change within the next decades. Recent studies have reported extensive phytoplankton blooms beneath ponded sea ice during summer, indicating that satellite-based Arctic annual primary production estimates may be significantly underestimated. Here we present a unique time-series of a phytoplankton spring bloom observed beneath snow-covered Arctic pack ice. The bloom, dominated by the haptophyte algae Phaeocystis pouchetii , caused near depletion of the surface nitrate inventory and a decline in dissolved inorganic carbon by 16 ± 6 g C m − 2 . Ocean circulation characteristics in the area indicated that the bloom developed in situ despite the snow-covered sea ice. Leads in the dynamic ice cover provided added sunlight necessary to initiate and sustain the bloom. Phytoplankton blooms beneath snow-covered ice might become more common and widespread in the future Arctic Ocean with frequent lead formation due to thinner and more dynamic sea ice despite projected increases in high-Arctic snowfall. This could alter productivity, marine food webs and carbon sequestration in the Arctic Ocean Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic Ocean Phytoplankton Sea ice University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Arctic Ocean Scientific Reports 7 1 |
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Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep40850 The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary production. One critical challenge is to understand how productivity will change within the next decades. Recent studies have reported extensive phytoplankton blooms beneath ponded sea ice during summer, indicating that satellite-based Arctic annual primary production estimates may be significantly underestimated. Here we present a unique time-series of a phytoplankton spring bloom observed beneath snow-covered Arctic pack ice. The bloom, dominated by the haptophyte algae Phaeocystis pouchetii , caused near depletion of the surface nitrate inventory and a decline in dissolved inorganic carbon by 16 ± 6 g C m − 2 . Ocean circulation characteristics in the area indicated that the bloom developed in situ despite the snow-covered sea ice. Leads in the dynamic ice cover provided added sunlight necessary to initiate and sustain the bloom. Phytoplankton blooms beneath snow-covered ice might become more common and widespread in the future Arctic Ocean with frequent lead formation due to thinner and more dynamic sea ice despite projected increases in high-Arctic snowfall. This could alter productivity, marine food webs and carbon sequestration in the Arctic Ocean |
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Assmy, Philipp Fernández-Méndez, Mar Duarte, Pedro Meyer, Amelie Randelhoff, Achim Mundy, Christopher John Olsen, Lasse Kauko, Hanna M. Bailey, Allison Chierici, Melissa Cohen, Lana Doulgeris, Anthony Paul Ehn, Jens K. Fransson, Agneta Gerland, Sebastian Hop, Haakon Hudson, Stephen R. Hughes, Nick Itkin, Polona Johnsen, Geir King, Jennifer A. Koch, Boris P. Koenig, Zoe Kwasniewski, Slawomir Laney, Samuel R. Nikolaus, Marcel Pavlov, Alexey K. Polashenski, Christopher M. Provost, Christine Rösel, Anja Sandbu, Marthe Spreen, Gunnar Smedsrud, Lars H. Sundfjord, Arild Taskjelle, Torbjørn Tatarek, Agnieszka Wiktor, Josef Wagner, Penelope Mae Wold, Anette Steen, Harald Granskog, Mats A. |
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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic |
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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic |
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