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Yunda-guarin, Gustavo; Brown, Thomas A.; Michel, Loic; Saint-béat, Blanche; Amiraux, Rémi; Nozais, Christian; Archambault, Philippe. |
Benthic organisms depend primarily on seasonal pulses of organic matter from primary producers. In the Arctic, declines in sea ice due to warming climate could lead to changes in this food supply with as yet unknown effects on benthic trophic dynamics. Benthic consumer diets and food web structure were studied in a seasonally ice-covered region of Baffin Bay during spring 2016 at stations ranging in depth from 199 to 2,111 m. We used a novel combination of highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) lipid biomarkers and stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N) to better understand the relationship between the availability of carbon sources in spring on the seafloor and their assimilation and transfer within the benthic food web. Organic carbon from sea ice (sympagic carbon... |
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Palavras-chave: Benthic food webs; Trophic markers; Sea-ice algae; Climate change; HBIs; Stable isotopes; Baffin Bay; Arctic Ocean. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00665/77749/79870.pdf |
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