• Changes in Sea-Ice Protist Diversity With Declining Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean From the 1980s to 2010s 

      Hop, Haakon; Vihtakari, Mikko; Bluhm, Bodil; Assmy, Philipp; Poulin, Michel; Gradinger, Rolf; Peeken, Ilka; von Quillfeldt, Cecilie; Olsen, Lasse Mork; Zhitina, Ludmila; Melnikov, Igor A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-06)
      The large declines in Arctic sea-ice age and extent over the last decades could have altered the diversity of sea-ice associated unicellular eukaryotes (referred to as sea-ice protists). A time series from the Russian ice-drift stations from the 1980s to the 2010s revealed changes in community composition and diversity of sea-ice protists from the Central Arctic Ocean. However, these observations ...
    • Ice-Associated Amphipods in a Pan-Arctic Scenario of Declining Sea Ice 

      Hop, Haakon; Vihtakari, Mikko; Bluhm, Bodil; Daase, Malin; Gradinger, Rolf; Melnikov, Igor A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-13)
      Sea-ice macrofauna includes ice amphipods and benthic amphipods, as well as mysids. Amphipods are important components of the sympagic food web, which is fuelled by the production of ice algae. Data on the diversity of sea-ice biota have been collected as a part of scientific expeditions over decades, and here we present a pan-Arctic analysis of data on ice-associated amphipods and mysids assimilated ...
    • Pelagic occurrences of the ice amphipod Apherusa glacialis throughout the Arctic 

      Kunisch, Erin; Bluhm, Bodil; Daase, Malin; Gradinger, Rolf; Hop, Haakon; Melnikov, Igor A.; Varpe, Øystein; Berge, Jørgen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-10)
      <i>Apherusa glacialis</i> is a common, sea ice-associated amphipod found throughout the Arctic Ocean and has long been considered permanently associated with the sea ice habitat. However, pelagic occurrences of <i>A. glacialis</i> have also been reported. It was recently suggested that <i>A. glacialis</i> overwinters at depth within the Atlantic-water inflow near Svalbard, to avoid being exported ...
    • Pelagic occurrences of the ice amphipod Apherusa glacialis throughout the Arctic 

      Kunisch, Erin; Bluhm, Bodil; Daase, Malin; Gradinger, Rolf; Hop, Haakon; Melnikov, Igor A.; Øystein, Varpe; Berge, Jørgen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-10)
      <i>Apherusa glacialis</i> is a common, sea ice-associated amphipod found throughout the Arctic Ocean and has long been considered permanently associated with the sea ice habitat. However, pelagic occurrences of <i>A. glacialis</i> have also been reported. It was recently suggested that <i>A. glacialis</i> overwinters at depth within the Atlantic-water inflow near Svalbard, to avoid being exported ...
    • Sea ice meiofauna distribution on local to pan-Arctic scales 

      Bluhm, Bodil A.; Hop, Haakon; Vihtakari, Mikko; Gradinger, Rolf; Iken, Katrin; Melnikov, Igor A.; Søreide, Janne E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-29)
      Arctic sea ice provides microhabitats for biota that inhabit the liquid‐filled network of brine channels and the ice–water interface. We used meta‐analysis of 23 published and unpublished datasets comprising 721 ice cores to synthesize the variability in composition and abundance of sea ice meiofauna at spatial scales ranging from within a single ice core to pan‐Arctic and seasonal scales. Two‐thirds ...