Functional Pattern of Benthic Epifauna in the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Deep Sea

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Zhulay, Irina, Bluhm, Bodil, Renaud, Paul E., Degen, Renate, Iken, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2021
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; Arctic; Chukchi Borderland; Chukchi; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/21991; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.609956

Assessment of Arctic deep-sea ecosystem functioning is currently an urgent task considering that ongoing sea-ice reduction opens opportunities for resource exploitation of yet understudied deep-sea regions. We used Biological Trait Analysis to evaluate ecosystem functioning and test if common paradi...