Zooplankton boom and ice amphipod bust below melting sea ice in the Amundsen Gulf, Arctic Canada

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1947-1958

  Hop, Haakon ^a   Mundy, Christopher J ^b   Gosselin, Michel ^b   Rossnagel, Andrea L ^c   Barber, David G ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amundsen Gulf; Canadian Arctic; Ice fauna; Ice melt; Sympagic ecosystem; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; HALOCLINE; ICE BREAKUP; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; SCUBA DIVING; SEA ICE; SNOWMELT; ZOOPLANKTON;

AMUNDSEN GULF; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA; FRANKLIN BAY; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

AMPHIPODA; APHERUSA GLACIALIS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; COPEPODA; OITHONA SIMILIS; ONISIMUS GLACIALIS; PSEUDOCALANUS;

EID: 81255187909     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-011-0991-4     Document Type: Article

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