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Recruitment of benthic invertebrates in high Arctic fjords: Relation to temperature, depth, and season
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-30)
In the high Arctic, recruitment of hard-bottom benthic organisms has been studied at single locations, but little is known about how it varies spatially or temporally, or how it is influenced by abiotic factors. In this study, settlement plates were simultaneously deployed at five locations in three Svalbard (Norway) fjords at depths ranging from 7 m to 215 m. Recruitment was significantly different ...
From polar night to midnight sun: Diel vertical migration, metabolism and biogeochemical role of zooplankton in a high Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-24)
Zooplankton vertical migration enhances the efficiency of the ocean biological pump by translocating carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) below the mixed layer through respiration and excretion at depth. We measured C and N active transport due to diel vertical migration (DVM) in a Svalbard fjord at 79°N. Multifrequency analysis of backscatter data from an Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler moored from January ...
Seabirds during Arctic Polar Night: underwater observations from Svalbard archipelago, Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-09)
Visually-oriented predators, such as seabirds, are highly light dependent, and thus their presence
and activity under continuously dark conditions of Arctic polar night pose a number of questions about the strategies
and mechanisms they use to find prey. Here, opportunistic observations of the behaviors of Thick-billed
Murres (Uria lomvia; n = 4) and juvenile Black Guillemots (Cepphus grylle; n ...