• The circumpolar impacts of climate change and anthropogenic stressors on Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) and its ecosystem 

      Geoffroy, Maxime; Bouchard, Caroline; Flores, Hauke; Robert, Dominique; Gjøsæter, Harald; Hoover, Carie; Hop, Haakon; Hussey, Nigel E.; Nahrgang, Jasmine; Steiner, Nadja; Bender, Morgan; Berge, Jørgen; Castellani, Giulina; Chernova, Natalia; Copeman, Louise; David, Carmen; Deary, Alison; Divoky, George; Dolgov, Andrey; Duffy-Anderson, Janet; Dupont, Nicolas; Durant, Joël M.; Elliott, Kyle; Gauthier, Stéphane; Goldstein, Esther D.; Rolf, Gradinger; Hedges, Kevin; Herbig, Jennifer; Laurel, Ben; Loseto, Lisa; Maes, Sarah; Mark, Felix; Mosbech, Anders; Pedro, Sara; Petitt-Wade, Harri; Prokopchuk, Irina; Paul E, Renaud; Schembri, Sarah; Vestfals, Cathleen; Walkusz, Wojciech (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-08)
      Arctic cod biomass are predicted. In most Arctic seas, the relative abundance of Arctic cod within the fish community will likely fluctuate in accordance with cold and warm periods. A reduced abundance of Arctic cod will negatively affect the abundance, distribution, and physiological condition of certain predators, whereas some predators will successfully adapt to a more boreal diet. Regional ...
    • Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services 

      Steiner, Nadja S.; Bowman, Jeff; Campbell, Karley; Chierici, Melissa; Eronen-Rasimus, Eeva; Falardeau, Marianne; Flores, Hauke; Fransson, Agneta; Herr, Helena; Insley, Stephen J.; Kauko, Hanna M.; Lannuzel, Delphine; Loseto, Lisa; Lynnes, Amanda; Majewski, Andy; Meiners, Klaus M.; Miller, Lisa A.; Michel, Loïc N.; Moreau, Sebastien; Nacke, Melissa; Nomura, Daiki; Tedesco, Letizia; van Franeker, Jan Andries; van Leeuwe, Maria A.; Wongpan, Pat (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-13)
      A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems meet the criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas, that global emissions driving climate change are directly linked to the demise of sea-ice ecosystems and its ecosystem services, and that the ...
    • Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services 

      Steiner, Nadja; Bowman, Jeff; Campbell, Karley; Chierici, Melissa; Eronen-Rasimus, Eeva; Falardeau, Marianne; Flores, Hauke; Fransson, Agneta; Herr, Helena; Insley, Stephen J.; Kauko, Hanna Maria; Lannuzel, Delphine; Loseto, Lisa; Lynnes, Amanda; Majewski, Andy; Meiners, Klaus M.; Miller, Lisa; Michel, Loic; Moreau, Sebastien; Nacke, Melissa; Nomura, Daiki; Tedesco, Letizia; van Franeker, Jan Andries; Leeuwe, Maria van; Wongpan, Pat (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-13)
      A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems meet the criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas, that global emissions driving climate change are directly linked to the demise of sea-ice ecosystems and its ecosystem services, and that the ...
    • Dense mesopelagic sound scattering layer and vertical segregation of pelagic organisms at the Arctic-Atlantic gateway during the midnight sun 

      Priou, Pierre; Nikolopoulos, Anna; Flores, Hauke; Gradinger, Rolf; Kunisch, Eirin; Katlein, Christian; Castellani, Giulia; Linders, Torsten Theodor; Berge, Jørgen; Fisher, Jonathan A.D.; Geoffroy, Maxime (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-18)
      Changes in vertical and spatial distributions of zooplankton and small pelagic fish impact the biological carbon pump and the distribution of larger piscivorous fish and marine mammal species. However, their distribution and abundance remain poorly documented at high latitudes because of the difficulties inherent to sampling relatively fast-moving organisms in ice-covered waters. This study documents ...
    • The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems 

      Lannuzel, Delphine; Tedesco, Letizia; Leeuwe, Maria van; Campbell, Karley; Flores, Hauke; Delille, Bruno; Miller, Lisa; Stefels, Jacqueline; Assmy, Philipp; Bowman, Jeff; Brown, Kristina; Castellani, Giulia; Chierici, Melissa; Crabeck, Odile; Damm, Ellen; Else, Brent; Fransson, Agneta; Fripiat, Francois; Geilfus, Nicolas-Xavier; Jacques, Caroline; Jones, Elizabeth; Kaartokallio, Hermanni; kotovitch, marie; Meiners, Klaus M.; Moreau, Sebastien; Nomura, Daiki; Peeken, Ilka; Rintala, Janne-Markus; Steiner, Nadja; Tison, Jean-Louis; Vancoppenolle, Martin; Linden, Fanny Van der; Vichi, Marcello; Wongpan, Pat (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-27)
      The Arctic sea-ice-scape is rapidly transforming. Increasing light penetration will initiate earlier seasonal primary production. This earlier growing season may be accompanied by an increase in ice algae and phytoplankton biomass, augmenting the emission of dimethylsulfide and capture of carbon dioxide. Secondary production may also increase on the shelves, although the loss of sea ice exacerbates ...
    • Sea-ice associated carbon flux in Arctic spring 

      Ehrlich, Julia; Bluhm, Bodil; Peeken, Ilka; Massicotte, P.; Schaafsma, Fokje L.; Castellani, Guilia; Brandt, Angelika; Flores, Hauke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-13)
      The Svalbard region faces drastic environmental changes, including sea-ice loss and “Atlantification” of Arctic waters, caused primarily by climate warming. These changes result in shifts in the sea-ice-associated (sympagic) community structure, with consequences for the sympagic food web and carbon cycling. To evaluate the role of sympagic biota as a source, sink, and transmitter of carbon, we ...
    • Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer 

      Flores, Hauke; Veyssière, Gaëlle; Castellani, Giulia; Wilkinson, Jeremy; Hoppmann, Mario; Karcher, Michael; Valcic, Lovro; Cornils, Astrid; Geoffroy, Maxime; Nicolaus, Marcel; Niehoff, Barbara; Priou, Pierre; Schmidt, Katrin; Stroeve, Julienne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-28)
      As Arctic sea ice deteriorates, more light enters the ocean, causing largely unknown effects on the ecosystem. Using an autonomous biophysical observatory, we recorded zooplankton vertical distribution under Arctic sea ice from dusk to dawn of the polar night. Here we show that zooplankton ascend into the under-ice habitat during autumn twilight, following an isolume of 2.4 × 10<sup>−4</sup>  ...
    • Sympagic fauna in and under Arctic pack ice in the annual sea ice system of the new Arctic Frontiers in Marine Science 

      Ehrlich, Julia; Schaafsma, Fokje L.; Bluhm, Bodil; Peeken, Ilka; Castellani, Guilia; Brandt, Angelika; Flores, Hauke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-19)
      A strong decline and thinning of the Arctic sea-ice cover over the past five decades has been documented. The former multiyear sea-ice system has largely changed to an annual system and with it the dynamics of sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. Less sea ice is reaching the Fram Strait and more ice and ice-transported material is released in the northern Laptev Sea and the central Arctic ...
    • Tracing basal resource use across sea-ice, pelagic, and benthic habitats in the early Arctic spring food web with essential amino acid carbon isotopes 

      Vane, Kim; Cobain, Matthew R. D.; Trueman, Clive N.; Vonnahme, Tobias R.; Rokitta, Sebastian; Polunin, Nicholas V. C.; Flores, Hauke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-09)
      A rapidly warming Arctic Ocean and associated sea-ice decline is resulting in changing sea-ice protist communities, affecting productivity of under-ice, pelagic, and benthic fauna. Quantifying such effects is hampered by a lack of biomarkers suitable for tracing specific basal resources (primary producers and microorganisms) through food webs. We investigate the potential of δ<sup>13</sup>C values ...
    • What we do in the dark: Prevalence of omnivorous feeding activity in Arctic zooplankton during polar night 

      Kunisch, Erin; Graeve, Martin; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Flores, Hauke; Varpe, Øystein; Bluhm, Bodil (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-07-04)
      During the productive polar day, zooplankton and sea-ice amphipods fulfill a critical role in energy transfer from primary producers to higher trophic-level species in Arctic marine ecosystems. Recent polar night studies on zooplankton and sea-ice amphipods suggest higher levels of biological activity than previously assumed. However, it is unknown if these invertebrates maintain polar night activity ...