Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs

• Published in: Polar research Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 23775 - 23
• Main Authors: Kędra, Monika, Moritz, Charlotte, Choy, Emily S., David, Carmen, Degen, Renate, Duerksen, Steven, Ellingsen, Ingrid, Górska, Barbara, Grebmeier, Jacqueline M., Kirievskaya, Dubrava, van Oevelen, Dick, Piwosz, Kasia, Samuelsen, Annette, Węsławski, Jan Marcin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Spånga Routledge 01.01.2015; Open Academia; Co-Action Publishing; Norwegian Polar Institute
• Subjects: Algae; Arctic; Carbon; Climate change; Colleges & universities; Ecological function; Ecosystems; Environmental changes; Environmental science; Environmental Sciences; Food chains; food web; Food webs; Global Changes; Harbors; Ice; Laboratories; Ocean floor; Organic matter; pelagic-benthic coupling; Plankton; Remote sensing; River ecology; Sea ice; sea-ice retreat; Trends; trophic transfer; Water column; Poland; trophic transfer; pelagic-benthic coupling; Arctic; food web; sea-ice retreat; climate change

Ongoing climate warming is causing a dramatic loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and it is projected that the Arctic Ocean will become seasonally ice-free by 2040. Many studies of local Arctic food webs now exist, and with this review paper we aim to synthesize these into a large-scale assessment...