Ice algal assemblages and vertical export of organic matter from sea ice in the Barents Sea and Nansen Basin (Arctic Ocean)

Polar Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1261-1273

  Tamelander, Tobias ^a,b   Reigstad, Marit ^a   Hop, Haakon ^b   Ratkova, Tatjana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Ice algae; Particulate organic carbon; Sea ice; Vertical flux

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; ICE ALGA; ICE CORE; ICE DRIFT; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; OPEN WATER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRAP; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; EURASIAN BASIN; NANSEN BASIN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 70350138660     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-009-0622-5     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Ambrose WG Jr, Clough LM, Tilney PR, Beer L (2001) Role of echinoderms in benthic remineralization in the Chukchi Sea. Mar Biol (Berl) 139:937-949. doi:10.1007/s002270100652.
2. Ambrose WG Jr, von Quillfeldt C, Clough LM, Tilney PVR, Tucker T (2005) The sub-ice algal community in the Chukchi Sea: large- and small-scale patterns of abundance based on images from a remotely operated vehicle. Polar Biol 28:784-795. doi:10.1007/s00300-005-0002-8.
3. Andreassen I, Nöthig E-M, Wassmann P (1996) Vertical particle flux on the shelf off northern Spitsbergen, Norway. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 137:215-228. doi:10.3354/meps137215.
4. Arrigo K (2003) Primary production in sea ice. In: Thomas DN, Dickmann GS (eds) Sea ice. An introduction to its physics, chemistry, biology and geology. Blackwell, Oxford, pp 143-183.
5. Bauerfeind E, Garrity C, Krumbholz M, Ramseier RO, Voss M (1997) Seasonal variability of sediment trap collections in the Northeast Water Polynya. 2. Biochemical and microscopic composition of sedimenting matter. J Mar Syst 10:371-389. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(96)00069-3.
6. Bergmann MA, Welch HE, Butler-Walker JE, Siferd TD (1991) Ice algal photosynthesis at Resolute and Saqvaqjuac in the Canadian Arctic. J Mar Syst 2:43-52. doi:10.1016/0924-7963(91)90012-J.
7. Bhaskar PV, Grossart HP, Bhosle NB, Simon M (2005) Production of macroaggregates from dissolved exopolymeric substances (EPS) of bacterial and diatom origin. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 53:255-264. doi:10.1016/j.femsec.2004.12.013.
8. Booth BC, Horner RA (1997) Microalgae on the Arctic Ocean Section, 1994: species abundance and biomass. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 44:1607-1622. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(97)00057-X.
9. Engelsen O, Hegseth EN, Hop H, Hansen E, Falk-Petersen S (2002) Spatial variability of chlorophyll-a in the Marginal Ice Zone of the Barents Sea, with relations to sea ice and oceanographic conditions. J Mar Syst 35:79-97. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00077-5.
10. Fischer G (1991) Stable carbon isotope ratios of plankton carbon and sinking organic-matter from the Atlantic sector of the Southern-Ocean. Mar Chem 35:581-596.
11. Forest A, Sampei M, Hattori H, Makabe R, Sasaki H, Fukuchi M, Wassmann P, Fortier L (2007) Particulate organic carbon fluxes on the slope of the Mackenzie Shelf (Beaufort Sea): Physical and biological forcing of shelf-basin exchanges. J Mar Syst 68:39-54. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.10.008.
12. Fortier M, Fortier L, Michel C, Legendre L (2002) Climatic and biological forcing of the vertical flux of biogenic particles under seasonal Arctic sea ice. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 225:1-16. doi:10.3354/meps225001.
13. Gerland S, Renner AHH, Godtliebsen F, Divine D, Løyning TB (2008) Decrease of sea ice thickness at Hopen, Barents Sea, during 1966-2007. Geophys Res Lett 35:L06501. doi:10.1029/2007GL032716.
14. 13C-rich organic matter from Antarctic sea-ice algae: a potential indicator of past sea-ice extent. Geology 27:331-334. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0331:SOCROM>2.3.CO;2.
15. Gosselin M, Levasseur M, Wheeler PA, Horner RA, Booth BC (1997) New measurements of phytoplankton and ice algal production in the Arctic Ocean. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 44:1623-1644. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(97)00054-4.
16. Gradinger R (1999) Vertical fine structure of the biomass and composition of algal communities in Arctic pack ice. Mar Biol (Berl) 133:745-754. doi:10.1007/s002270050516.
17. Gradinger R (2008) Sea ice algae: major contributors to primary production and algal biomass in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during May/June 2002. Deep-Sea Res II. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.10.016.
18. Gradinger R, Ikävalko J (1998) Organism incorporation into newly forming Arctic sea ice in the Greenland Sea. J Plankton Res 20:871-886. doi:10.1093/plankt/20.5.871.
19. Gradinger R, Friedrich C, Spindler M (1999) Abundance, biomass and composition of the sea ice biota of the Greenland Sea pack ice. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 46:1457-1472. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00030-2.
20. Hansen AS, Nielsen TG, Levinsen H, Madsen SD, Thingstad TF, Hansen BW (2003) Impact of changing ice cover on pelagic productivity and food web structure in Disko Bay, West Greenland: a dynamic model approach. Deep Sea Res Part I Oceanogr Res Pap 50:171-187. doi:10.1016/S0967-0637(02)00133-4.
21. Hegseth EN (1992) Sub-ice algal assemblages of the Barents Sea: Species composition, chemical composition, and growth-rates. Polar Biol 12:485-496. doi:10.1007/BF00238187.
22. Hegseth EN (1998) Primary production of the northern Barents Sea. Polar Res 17:113-123. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1998.tb00266.x.
23. 15 N analysis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 128:1-10. doi:10.3354/meps128001.
24. Hodal H, Kristiansen S (2008) The importance of small-celled phytoplankton in spring blooms at the marginal ice zone in the northern Barents Sea. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 55:2176-2185. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.012.
25. Holm-Hansen O, Riemann B (1978) Chlorophyll a determination: improvements in methodology. Oikos 30:438-447. doi:10.2307/3543338.
26. Hop H, Pavlova O (2008) Distribution and biomass transport of ice amphipods in drifting sea ice around Svalbard. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 55:2292-2307. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.023.
27. Johannessen OM, Bengtsson L, Miles MW, Kuzmina SI, Semenov VA, Alekseev GV, Nagurnyi AP, Zakharov VF, Bobylev LP, Pettersson LH, Hasselmann K, Cattle AP (2004) Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability. Tellus Ser A 56:328-341. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2004.00060.x.
28. Juul-Pedersen T, Michel C, Gosselin M, Seuthe L (2008) Seasonal changes in the sinking export of particulate material under first-year sea ice on the Mackenzie Shelf (western Canadian Arctic). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 353:13-25. doi:10.3354/meps07165.
29. Kivimäe C (2007) Carbon and oxygen fluxes in the Barents and Norwegian Seas: production, air-sea exchange and budget calculations. PhD Thesis, University of Bergen.
30. Legendre L, Ackley SF, Dieckmann GS, Gulliksen B, Horner R, Hoshiai T, Melnikov IA, Reeburgh WS, Spindler M, Sullivan CW (1992) Ecology of sea ice biota. 2. Global significance. Polar Biol 12:429-444.
31. Loeng H (1991) Features of the physical oceanographic conditions of the Barents Sea. Polar Res 10:5-18. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1991.tb00630.x.
32. Lønne OJ (1988) A diver-operated electric suction sampler for sympagic (=under-ice) invertebrates. Polar Res 6:135-136. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1988.tb00589.x.
33. Maslanik JA, Fowler C, Stroeve J, Drobot S, Zwally J, Yi D, Emry W (2007) A younger, thinner Arctic ice cover: increased potential for rapid, extensive ice loss. Geophys Res Lett 34:L24501. doi:10.1029/2007GL032043.
34. Meiners K, Gradinger R, Fehling J, Civitarese G, Spindler M (2003) Vertical distribution of exopolymer particles in sea ice of the Fram Strait (Arctic) during autumn. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 248:1-13. doi:10.3354/meps248001.
35. Menden-Deuer S, Lessard EJ (2000) Carbon to volume relationships for dinoflagellates, diatoms, and other protist plankton. Limnol Oceanogr 45:569-579.
36. Michel C, Legendre L, Ingram RG, Gosselin M, Levasseur M (1996) Carbon budget of sea-ice algae in spring: Evidence of a significant transfer to zooplankton grazers. J Geophys Res C 101:18345-18360. doi:10.1029/96JC00045.
37. Michel C, Nielsen TG, Nozais C, Gosselin M (2002) Significance of sedimentation and grazing by ice micro- and meiofauna for carbon cycling in annual sea ice (northern Baffin Bay). Aquat Microb Ecol 30:57-68. doi:10.3354/ame030057.
38. Michels J, Dieckmann GS, Thomas DN, Schnack-Schiel SB, Krell A, Assmy P, Kennedy H, Papadimitriou S, Cisewski B (2008) Short-term biogenic particle flux under late spring sea ice in the western Weddell Sea. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 55:1024-1039. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.12.019.
39. Mundy CJ, Barber DG, Michel C (2005) Variability of snow and ice thermal, physical and optical properties pertinent to sea ice algae biomass during spring. J Mar Syst 58:107-120. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2005.07.003.
40. O'Brien MC, Macdonald RW, Melling H, Iseki K (2006) Particle fluxes and geochemistry on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf: Implications for sediment transport and deposition. Cont Shelf Res 26:41-81. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2005.09.007.
41. Olli K, Wexels Riser C, Wassmann P, Ratkova T, Arashkevich E, Pasternak A (2001) Vertical flux of biogenic matter during a Lagrangian study off the NW Spanish continental margin. Prog Oceanogr 51:443-466. doi:10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00079-9.
42. Pavlov V, Pavlova O, Korsnes R (2004) Sea ice fluxes and drift trajectories from potential pollution sources, computed with a statistical sea ice model of the Arctic Ocean. J Mar Syst 48:133-157. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2003.11.024.
43. Ratkova TN, Wassmann P (2002) Seasonal variation and spatial distribution of phyto- and protozooplankton in the central Barents Sea. J Mar Syst 38:47-75. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00169-0.
44. Ratkova TN, Wassmann P (2005) Sea ice algae in the White and Barents seas: composition and origin. Polar Res 24:95-110. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2005.tb00143.x.
45. Reigstad M, Wassmann P, Wexels Riser C, Øygarden S, Rey F (2002) Variations in hydrography, nutrients and chlorophyll a in the marginal ice-zone and the central Barents Sea. J Mar Syst 38:9-29. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00167-7.
46. Reigstad M, Wexels Riser C, Wassmann P, Ratkova T (2008) Vertical export of particulate organic carbon: attenuation, composition and loss rates in the northern Barents Sea. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 55:2308-2319. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.007.
47. Renaud PE, Riedel A, Michel C, Morata N, Gosselin M, Juul-Pedersen T, Chiuchiolo A (2007) Seasonal variation in benthic community oxygen demand: a response to an ice algal bloom in the Beaufort Sea, Canadian Arctic? J Mar Syst 67:1-12. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.07.006.
48. Richardson TL, Jackson GA (2007) Small phytoplankton and carbon export from the surface ocean. Science 315:838-840. doi:10.1126/science.1133471.
49. Riebesell U, Reigstad M, Wassmann P, Noji T, Passow U (1995) On the trophic fate of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot): VI. Significance of Phaeocystis-derived mucus for vertical flux. Neth J Sea Res 33:193-203. doi:10.1016/0077-7579(95)90006-3.
50. Riedel A, Michel C, Gosselin M (2006) Seasonal study of sea-ice exopolymeric substances on the Mackenzie shelf: implications for transport of sea-ice bacteria and algae. Aquat Microb Ecol 45:195-206. doi:10.3354/ame045195.
51. Różańska M, Poulin M, Gosselin G (2008) Protist entrapment in newly formed sea ice in the Coastal Arctic Ocean. J Mar Syst 74:887-901. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.11.009.
52. Rysgaard S, Kuhl M, Glud RN, Hansen JW (2001) Biomass, production and horizontal patchiness of sea ice algae in a high-Arctic fjord (Young Sound, NE Greenland). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 223:15-26. doi:10.3354/meps223015.
53. Sazhin AF, Ratkova TN, Kosobokova KN (2004) Inhabitants of the White Sea coastal ice during the early spring period. Oceanology (Mosc) 44:82-89.
54. Sundfjord A, Fer I, Kasajima Y, Svendsen H (2007) Observations of turbulent mixing and hydrography in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea. J Geophys Res C:112. doi:10.1029/2006JC003524.
55. Syvertsen EE (1991) Ice algae in the Barents Sea: types of assemblages, origin, fate and role in the ice-edge phytoplankton bloom. Polar Res 10:277-287. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1991.tb00653.x.
56. Tamelander T, Heiskanen AS (2004) Effects of spring bloom phytoplankton dynamics and hydrography on the composition of settling material in the coastal northern Baltic Sea. J Mar Syst 52:217-234. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2004.02.001.
57. Tamelander T, Reigstad M, Hop H, Carroll MC, Wassmann P (2008) Pelagic and sympagic contribution of organic matter to zooplankton and vertical export in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone. Deep Sea Res Part II Top Stud Oceanogr 55:2330-2339. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.05.019.
58. Tremblay C, Runge JA, Legendre L (1989) Grazing and sedimentation of ice algae during and immediately after a bloom at the ice-water interface. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 56:291-300. doi:10.3354/meps056291.
59. Vinje T, Kvambekk AS (1991) Barents Sea drift ice characteristics. Polar Res 10:59-68. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1991.tb00635.x.
60. von Quillfeldt CH (1997) Distribution of diatoms in the Northeast Water Polynya, Greenland. J Mar Syst 10:211-240. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(96)00056-5.
61. von Quillfeldt CH (2004) The diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its potential as an indicator species for cold water rather than for sea ice. Vie Milieu Paris 54:137-143.
62. von Quillfeldt CH, Ambrose WG Jr, Clough LM (2003) High number of diatom species in first-year ice from the Chukchi Sea. Polar Biol 26:806-818. doi:10.1007/s00300-003-0549-1.
63. Wassmann P (1998) Retention versus export food chains: processes controlling sinking loss from marine pelagic systems. Hydrobiologia 363:29-57. doi:10.1023/A:1003113403096.
64. Wassmann P, Reigstad M, Haug T, Rudels B, Carroll ML, Hop H, Gabrielsen GW, Falk-Petersen S, Denisenko SG, Arashkevich E, Slagstad D, Pavlova O (2006) Food webs and carbon flux in the Barents Sea. Prog Oceanogr 71:232-287. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2006.10.003.
65. Werner I (2000) Faecal pellet production by Arctic under-ice amphipods - transfer of organic matter through the ice/water interface. Hydrobiologia 426:89-96. doi:10.1023/A:1003984327103.
66. Wexels Riser C, Reigstad M, Wassmann P, Arashkevich E, Falk-Petersen S (2007) Export or retention? Copepod abundance, faecal pellet production and vertical flux in the marginal ice zone through snap shots from the Barents Sea. Polar Biol 30:719-730. doi:10.1007/s00300-006-0229-z.