• Genetics redraws pelagic biogeography of Calanus 

      Choquet, Marvin Raoul Charles Roger Ren; Haltebakk, Maja; Dhanasiri, Anusha Krishanthi Shyama; Kosobokova, Ksenia N.; Smolina, Irina Vladimirovna; Søreide, Janne; Svensen, Camilla; Melle, Webjørn Raunsgård; Kwasniewski, Slawomir; Eiane, Ketil; Daase, Malin; Tverberg, Vigdis; Skreslet, Stig; Bucklin, Ann; Hoarau, Galice Guillaume (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-20)
      Planktonic copepods of the genus Calanus play a central role in North Atlantic/Arctic marine food webs. Here, using molecular markers, we redrew the distributional ranges of Calanus species inhabiting the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and revealed much wider and more broadly overlapping distributions than previously described. The Arctic shelf species, C. glacialis, dominated the zooplankton ...
    • Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ic 

      Assmy, Philipp; Fernández-Méndez, Mar; Duarte, Pedro; Meyer, Amelie; Randelhoff, Achim; Mundy, Christopher John; Olsen, Lasse; Kauko, Hanna M.; Bailey, Allison; Chierici, Melissa; Cohen, Lana; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Ehn, Jens K.; Fransson, Agneta; Gerland, Sebastian; Hop, Haakon; Hudson, Stephen R.; Hughes, Nick; Itkin, Polona; Johnsen, Geir; King, Jennifer A.; Koch, Boris P.; Koenig, Zoe; Kwasniewski, Slawomir; Laney, Samuel R.; Nikolaus, Marcel; Pavlov, Alexey K.; Polashenski, Christopher M.; Provost, Christine; Rösel, Anja; Sandbu, Marthe; Spreen, Gunnar; Smedsrud, Lars H.; Sundfjord, Arild; Taskjelle, Torbjørn; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Wiktor, Josef; Wagner, Penelope Mae; Wold, Anette; Steen, Harald; Granskog, Mats A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-19)
      The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary production. One critical challenge is to understand how productivity will change within the next decades. Recent studies have reported extensive phytoplankton blooms beneath ponded sea ice during summer, indicating ...
    • Pelagic Ecosystem Characteristics Across the Atlantic Water Boundary Current from Rijpfjorden, Svalbard, to the Arctic Ocean during Summer (2010-2014) 

      Hop, Haakon; Assmy, Philipp; Wold, Anette; Sundfjord, Arild; Daase, Malin; Duarte, Pedro; Kwasniewski, Slawomir; Gluchowska, Marta; Wiktor, Józef Maria; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Wiktor, Józef Maria Jr.; Kristiansen, Svein; Fransson, Agneta Ingrid; Chierici, Melissa; Vihtakari, Mikko (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-09)
      The northern coast of Svalbard contains high-arctic fjords, such as Rijpfjorden (80°N 22°30′E). This area has experienced higher sea and air temperatures and less sea ice in recent years, and models predict increasing temperatures in this region. Part of the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC), which transports relatively warm Atlantic water along the continental slope west of Svalbard, bypasses these ...
    • Seasonal variation in transport of zooplankton into the Arctic Basin through the Atlantic gateway, Fram Strait 

      Basedow, Sünnje Linnéa; Sundfjord, Arild; von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Halvorsen, Elisabeth; Kwasniewski, Slawomir; Reigstad, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-04)
      The largest contribution of oceanic heat to the Arctic Ocean is the warm Atlantic Water (AW) inflow through the deep Fram Strait. The AW current also carries Atlantic plankton into the Arctic Basin and this inflow of zooplankton biomass through the Atlantic-Arctic gateway far exceeds the inflow through the shallow Pacific-Arctic gateway. However, because this transport has not yet been adequately ...
    • Zooplankton communities associated with new and regenerated primary production in the Atlantic inflow north of Svalbard 

      Svensen, Camilla; Halvorsen, Elisabeth; Vernet, Maria; Franzè, Gayantonia; Dmoch, Katarzyna; Lavrentyev, Peter J.; Kwasniewski, Slawomir (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-05)
      The Arctic Ocean is changing rapidly with respect to ice cover extent and volume, growth season duration and biological production. Zooplankton are important components in the arctic marine food web, and tightly coupled to the strong seasonality in primary production. In this study, we investigate zooplankton composition, including microzooplankton, copepod nauplii, as well as small and large copepod ...
    • Zooplankton in Svalbard fjords on the Atlantic–Arctic boundary 

      Gluchowska, Marta; Kwasniewski, Slawomir; Prominska, Agnieszka; Olszewska, Anna; Goszczko, Ilona; Falk-Petersen, Stig; Hop, Haakon; Weslawski, Jan Marcin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-07-01)
      Zooplankton abundance and community structures were studied in three west Spitsbergen fjords at the beginning of the warm phase, which seem to have entered in 2006. Sampling was conducted in summer 2007 at stations distributed along transects in Hornsund, Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden. Variations in zooplankton standing stocks and community structures (assessing taxonomic diversity and zoogeographical ...