Food web structure of a coastal Arctic marine ecosystem and implications for stability

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: McMeans, Bailey C., Rooney, Neil, Arts, Michael T., Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2013
• Subjects: Arctic marine ecology; Climate warming; Ecological patterns; Fatty acids; Food web; Macroalgae; Resource coupling; Stable isotopes; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cumberland Sound; Baffin; Calanus hyperboreus; Climate change; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/377; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10278

There is little doubt that Arctic ecosystems will continue to face unprecedented change in the coming decades. The identification of food web structures that confer stability to these systems is, therefore, a priority. Here, we use stable isotopes and fatty acids to resolve the food web structure of...