The importance of ice algae-produced carbon in the central Arctic Ocean ecosystem: Food web relationships revealed by lipid and stable isotope analyses

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2027-2044

  Kohlbach, Doreen ^a,b   Graeve, Martin ^a   A Lange, Benjamin ^a,b   David, Carmen ^a,b   Peeken, Ilka ^a   Flores, Hauke ^a,b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; ICE ALGA; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIPID; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA ICE; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; APHERUSA GLACIALIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CLIONE LIMACINA; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; PTEROPODA; THEMISTO LIBELLULA;

EID: 84993660519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10351     Document Type: Article

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