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Author Chapelle, G; Peck, LS
Title Polar gigantism dictated by oxygen availability Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Nature Abbreviated Journal Nature
Volume 399 Issue Pages 114-115
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0028-0836 ISBN Medium
Area Black Sea; Caspian Sea; Lake Baikal Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ 137 Serial 1
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Author Hilmer, M
Title A model study of Arctic sea ice variability Type Book Whole
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 157 pp
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Corporate Author Thesis Doctoral thesis
Publisher Inst Meereskunde Place of Publication Kiel Editor
Language English Summary Language English; German Original Title
Series Editor (up) Series Title Berichte aus dem Institut für Meereskunde an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Abbreviated Series Title Ber Inst Meereskd Christian-Albrechts-Univ Kiel
Series Volume 320 Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0341-8561 ISBN Medium pp
Area Arctic Ocean Expedition Conference
Notes Approved yes
Call Number refbase @ user @ 468 Serial 2
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Author Hobson, KA; Ambrose Jr, WG; Renaud, PE
Title Sources of primary production, benthic-pelagic coupling, and trophic relationships within the Northeast Water Polynya: Insights from δ13C and δ15N analysis Type Journal Article
Year 1995 Publication Marine Ecology Progress Series Abbreviated Journal Mar Ecol Prog Ser
Volume 128 Issue 1-3 Pages 1-10
Keywords phytobenthos; polynyas; carbon 13; nitrogen isotopes; food webs; check lists; trophic structure; Algae; PNE, Greenland, Northeast Water Polynya
Abstract We used stable carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N) isotope analysis to investigate linkages between sources of primary production and the pelagic and benthic components of the Northeast Water (NEW) Polynya off northeastern Greenland. Ice algae was enriched in 13C (mean δ13C = -18.6 vs -27.9 ppt) and 15N (mean δ15N = 8.3 vs 4.9 ppt) over particulate organic matter

(POM) suggesting that the relative importance of these sources might be traced isotopically. Most grazing crustaceans and filter-feeding bivalves had δ13C and δ15N values in the range of -21 to -23 ppt and 7 to 9 ppt, respectively, indicating a direct pathway from POM. Close benthic-pelagic coupling was also confirmed for other benthic organisms examined with the exception of the predatory or deposit feeding echinoderms Ophiocten, Ophiacantha and Pontaster. Compared with other Arctic and temperate marine food webs, stable-carbon isotope values for the NEW Polynya were depleted in 13C. A δ15N trophic model that incorporated taxon-specific isotopic fractionation factors indicated that the NEW Polynya consisted of 4.5 to 5 trophic levels. Stable-isotope analysis may be well suited to establishing the importance of polynyas as sites of high primary productivity and tight benthic-pelagic coupling relative to regions of more permanent ice cover.
Address Canadian Wildlife Service, 115 Perimeter Road, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X4, Canada
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Publisher Inter-Research Place of Publication Oldendorf/Luhe Editor
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
Series Editor (up) Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0171-8630 ISBN Medium
Area Northeast Water Polynya; Northeast Greenland Shelf; Arctic Expedition Conference
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Call Number refbase @ user @ 133 Serial 3
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Author Aberle, N; Witte, U
Title Deep-sea macrofauna exposed to a simulated sedimentation event in the abyssal NE Atlantic: in situ pulse-chase experiments using 13C-labelled phytodetritus Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Marine Ecology Progress Series Abbreviated Journal Mar Ecol Prog Ser
Volume 251 Issue Pages 37-47
Keywords Deep-sea; Pulse-chase experiment; δ13C; Benthic carbon remineralisation; Macrofauna; Atlantic Ocean, Porcupine Abyssal Plain
Abstract Tracer experiments with 13C-labelled diatoms Thalassiosira rotula (Bacillariophycea, 98% 13C-labelled) were conducted at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) in the NE Atlantic (BENGAL Station; 48°50'N, 16°30'W, 4850 m depth) during May/June 2000. In situ enrichment experiments were carried out using de

ep-sea benthic chamber landers: within the chambers a spring bloom was simulated and the fate of this food-pulse within the abyssal macrobenthic community was followed. In focus was the role of different macrofauna taxa and their vertical distribution within the sediment column in consuming and reworking the freshly deposited material. T. rotula is one of the most abundant pelagic diatoms in the NE Atlantic and therefore 0.2 g of freeze dried T. rotula, equivalent to 1 g algal C m-2 yr-1, was injected into each incubation chamber. Three different incubation times of 2.5, 8 and 23 d were chosen in order to follow the uptake of 13C-labelled phytodetritus by macrofauna. After only 2.5 d, 77% of all macrofauna organisms showed tracer uptake. After 23 d the highest degree of enrichment was measured and 95% of the individuals had taken up 13C from the introduced algal material. In addition to that a downward transport of organic matter was observed, even though the mixing was not

very intense. The initial processing of carbon was dominated by polychaetes that made up a percentage of 52% of total macrofauna. In general macrofauna organisms that lived close to the sediment surface had higher access to the simulated food-pulse, confirming the hypothesis that individuals close to the sediment surface have the strongest impact on the decomposition of phytodetritus. In our study we observed only modest vertical entrainment of 13C tracers into the sediment. With regard to contradictory results from former 13C-enrichment experiments in bathyal regions, compared to results from our study site in the abyssal plain, we thus propose pronounced differences in feeding strategies between macrofauna communities from continental margins and abyssal plains.
Address Aberle, Witte: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany; Aberle: Present address: Max Planck Institute for Limnology, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Germany; Email: aberle@mpil-ploen.mpg.de
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Publisher Inter-Research Place of Publication Oldendorf/Luhe Editor
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0171-8630 ISBN Medium
Area NE Atlantic Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ 706 Serial 4
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Author Amon, RMW; Budéus, G; Meon, B
Title Dissolved organic carbon distribution and origin in the Nordic Seas: Exchanges with the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Geophysical Research Abbreviated Journal J Geophys Res
Volume 108 Issue C7 Pages
Keywords dissolved organic matter; dissolved organic carbon; chromophoric dissolved organic matter; fluorescence; vertical carbon transport
Abstract Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and in situ fluorescence were measured along with hydrographic parameters in the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas (Nordic Seas). Surface (<100 m) concentrations of DOC ranged from 60 to 118 µM with elevated values in the East Greenland Current (EGC) which transports water from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic. EGC surface waters also showed a pronounced fluorescence maximum between 30 and 120 m depth in all EGC sections indicating the abundance of Arctic river derived DOC in this current. Based on fluorescence we estimated that 20-50% of the annual river discharge to the Arctic Ocean was exported in the EGC. The fluorescence maximum was typically associated with salinity around 33 and temperatures below -1°C which are characteristic of surface and upper halocline water in the Arctic Ocean. The elevated fluorescence in this water mass suggests a strong Eurasian shelf component and also suggests that in situ fluorescence could be used to trace Eurasian shelf water in the central Arctic Ocean. DOC concentrations in the Nordic Sea basins (>1000 m) were relatively high (~50 µM DOC) compared with other ocean basins indicating active vertical transport of DOC in this region on decadal timescales. Based on existing vertical transport estimates and 15 µM of semilabile DOC we calculated an annual vertical net DOC export of 3.5 Tg C yr-1 in the Greenland Sea and about 36 Tg C yr-1 for the entire Arctic Mediterranean Sea (AMS) including the Greenland-Scotland Ridge overflow. It appears that physical processes play a determining role for the distribution of DOC in the AMS.
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Publisher American Geophysical Union Place of Publication Washington, DC Editor
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
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Area Nordic Seas Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ ms Serial 5
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