Climatic and ecological drivers of euphausiid community structure vary spatially in the Barents Sea: relationships from a long time series (1952–2009)

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Orlova, Emma L., Dolgov, Andrey V., Renaud, Paul E., Greenacre, Michael, Halsband, Claudia, Ivshin, Victor A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers
• Subjects: Arctic; Capelin; Cod; Krill; Pelagic food web; Barents Sea; Niva; Norwegian Sea; Climate change; Meganyctiphanes norvegica; Thysanoessa inermis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44920; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2014.00074

Euphausiids play an important role in transferring energy from ephemeral primary producers to fish, seabirds, and marine mammals in the Barents Sea ecosystem. Climatic impacts have been suggested to occur at all levels of the Barents Sea food-web, but adequate exploration of these phenomena on ecolo...