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dc.contributor.authorMarquardt, Miriam
dc.contributor.authorGoraguer, Lucie Hélène Marie
dc.contributor.authorAssmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf
dc.contributor.authorBluhm, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro
dc.contributor.authorAaboe, Signe
dc.contributor.authorDown, Emily
dc.contributor.authorPatrohay, Evan
dc.contributor.authorEdvardsen, Bente
dc.contributor.authorTatarek, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorSmola, Zofia
dc.contributor.authorWiktor, Józef
dc.contributor.authorGradinger, Rolf Rudolf
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-13T10:51:26Z
dc.date.available2023-10-13T10:51:26Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-27
dc.description.abstractThe rapid decline of Arctic sea ice makes understanding sympagic (ice-associated) biology a particularly urgent task. Here we studied the poorly known seasonality of sea-ice protist and meiofauna community composition, abundance and biomass in the bottom 30 cm of sea ice in relation to ice properties and ice drift trajectories in the northwestern Barents Sea. We expected low abundances during the polar night and highest values during spring prior to ice melt. Sea ice conditions and Chlorophyll a concentrations varied strongly seasonally, while particulate organic carbon concentrations were fairly stable throughout the seasons. In December to May we sampled growing first-year ice, while in July and August melting older sea ice dominated. Low sea-ice biota abundances in March could be related to the late onset of ice formation and short time period for ice algae and uni- and multicellular grazers to establish themselves. Pennate diatoms, such as Navicula spp. and Nitzschia spp., dominated the bottom ice algal communities and were present during all seasons. Except for May, ciliates, dinoflagellates, particularly of the order Gymnodiales, and small-sized flagellates were co-dominant. Ice meiofauna (here including large ciliates and foraminifers) was comprised mainly of harpacticoid copepods, copepod nauplii, rotifers, large ciliates and occasionally acoels and foraminifers, with dominance of omnivore species throughout the seasons. Large ciliates comprised the most abundant meiofauna taxon at all ice stations and seasons (50–90 %) but did not necessarily dominate the biomass. While ice melt might have released and reduced ice algal biomass in July, meiofauna abundance remained high, indicating different annual cycles of protist versus meiofauna taxa. In May highest Chlorophyll a concentrations (29.4 mg m<sup>− 2</sup> ) and protist biomass (107 mg C m<sup>− 2</sup> ) occurred, while highest meiofauna abundance was found in August (23.9 × 10<sup>3</sup> Ind. m<sup>− 2</sup> ) and biomass in December (0.6 mg C m<sup>− 2</sup> ). The abundant December ice biota community further strengthens the emerging notion of an active biota during the dark Arctic winter. The data demonstrated a strong and partially unexpected seasonality in the Barents Sea ice biota, indicating that changes in ice formation, drift and decay will significantly impact the functioning of the ice-associated ecosystem.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMarquardt MM, Goraguer L, Assmy P, Bluhm B, Aaboe S, Down E, Patrohay E, Edvardsen B, Tatarek A, Smola Z, Wiktor J, Gradinger R. Seasonal dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea. Progress in Oceanography. 2023;218en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2180275
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103128
dc.identifier.issn0079-6611
dc.identifier.issn1873-4472
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31542
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalProgress in Oceanography
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleSeasonal dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Seaen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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