The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton ... During a heat wave, not only the air but also the ocean grows warmer—the temperature is substantially higher than the ...

“Spring is a hectic time in the ocean, and algal ... Sanna Majaneva ventured into the Arctic fjords to monitor chlorophyll, the photosynthetic pigment in phytoplankton. While Majaneva relied ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University ... NCP is part of the ocean’s biological pump — it refers to the portion of phytoplankton production exported from the euphotic ...

Phytoplankton are changing the “physical property ... A positive feedback process is already known to occur in the Arctic, as the darker-hued ocean water absorbs more sun than the lighter-colored ice.

“Arctic Station has been ... transfers water samples filled with phytoplankton and zooplankton harvested from his field site, a section of open ocean off the coast of Disko Island.

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the ...

Referring to the spread of warm waters from the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean due to climate change ... providing food for primary marine producers living on the surface like phytoplankton and sea ice ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants ... including in the Arctic Ocean, a region which is particularly sensitive ...

varies between 0.2 and 1.0 in the world ocean, and we provided an empirical relationship to derive k from the size structure of phytoplankton biomass in the euphotic zone. Biogeochemists and modelers ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such ...

This can be used to refine our understanding of phytoplankton bloom dynamics and to improve our understanding of the ocean's carbon cycle." Despite being one of the most active volcanoes in the ...