Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3653-3658

  Krembs, Christopher ^a   Eicken, Hajo ^b   Deming, Jody W ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice algae; Permeability; Polysaccharides; Saline ice

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COLWELLIA PSYCHRERYTHRAEA; DIATOM; MELOSIRA ARCTICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOPOLYMERS; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ICE COVER; POROSITY; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLWELLIA PSYCHRERYTHRAEA; MELOSIRA; MELOSIRA ARCTICA;

EID: 79952763587     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100701108     Document Type: Article

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