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    The marine ecosystem of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (2002)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Polar research 21 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1751-8369
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geography , Geosciences
    Notes: Kongsfjorden is a glacial fjord in the Arctic (Svalbard) that is influenced by both Atlantic and Arctic water masses and harbours a mixture of boreal and Arctic flora and fauna. Inputs from large tidal glaciers create steep environmental gradients in sedimentation and salinity along the length of this fjord. The glacial inputs cause reduced biomass and diversity in the benthic community in the inner fjord. Zooplankton suffers direct mortality from the glacial outflow and primary production is reduced because of limited light levels in the turbid, mixed inner waters. The magnitude of the glacial effects diminishes towards the outer fjord. Kongsfjorden is an important feeding ground for marine mammals and seabirds. Even though the fjord contains some boreal fauna, the prey consumed by upper trophic levels is mainly Arctic organisms. Marine mammals constitute the largest top-predator biomass, but seabirds have the largest energy intake and also export nutrients and energy out of the marine environment. Kongsfjorden has received a lot of research attention in the recent past. The current interest in the fjord is primarily based on the fact that Kongsfjorden is particularly suitable as a site for exploring the impacts of possible climate changes, with Atlantic water influx and melting of tidal glaciers both being linked to climate variability. The pelagic ecosystem is likely to be most sensitive to the Atlantic versus Arctic influence, whereas the benthic ecosystem is more affected by long-term changes in hydrography as well as changes in glacial runoff and sedimentation. Kongsfjorden will be an important Arctic monitoring site over the coming decades and a review of the current knowledge, and a gap analysis, are therefore warranted. Important knowledge gaps include a lack of quantitative data on production, abundance of key prey species, and the role of advection on the biological communities in the fjord.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.2002.tb00073.x
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    The physical environment of Kongsfjorden–Krossfjorden, an Arctic fjord system in Svalbard (2002)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Polar research 21 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1751-8369
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geography , Geosciences
    Notes: Kongsfjorden-Krossfjorden and the adjacent West Spitsbergen Shelf meet at the common mouth of the two fjord arms. This paper presents our most up-to-date information about the physical environment of this fjord system and identifies important gaps in knowledge. Particular attention is given to the steep physical gradients along the main fjord axis, as well as to seasonal environmental changes. Physical processes on different scales control the large-scale circulation and small-scale (irreversible) mixing of water and its constituents. It is shown that, in addition to the tide, run-off (glacier ablation, snowmelt, summer rainfall and ice calving) and local winds are the main driving forces acting on the upper water masses in the fjord system. The tide is dominated by the semi-diurnal component and the freshwater supply shows a marked seasonal variation pattern and also varies interannually. The wind conditions are characterized by prevailing katabatic winds, which at times are strengthened by the geostrophic wind field over Svalbard. Rotational dynamics have a considerable influence on the circulation patterns within the fjord system and give rise to a strong interaction between the fjord arms. Such dynamics are also the main reason why variations in the shelf water density field, caused by remote forces (tide and coastal winds), propagate as a Kelvin wave into the fjord system. This exchange affects mainly the intermediate and deep water, which is also affected by vertical convection processes driven by cooling of the surface and brine release during ice formation in the inner reaches of the fjord arms. Further aspects covered by this paper include the geological and geomorphological characteristics of the Kongsfjorden area, climate and meteorology, the influence of glaciers, freshwater supply, sea ice conditions, sedimentation processes as well as underwater radiation conditions. The fjord system is assumed to be vulnerable to possible climate changes, and thus is very suitable as a site for the demonstration and investigation of phenomena related to climate change.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.2002.tb00072.x
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    Habitat related variation in UV tolerance of tropical marine red macrophytes is not temperature dependent (2003)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Physiologia plantarum 118 (2003), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1399-3054
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Because tropical marine macrophytes experience high ultraviolet-B radiation (UVBR: 280–320 nm) it is assumed that they have high UV tolerance. This was investigated by examining the relative UV sensitivity of five Caribbean red macrophytes. Furthermore, the possibility of temperature dependence of UV effects was examined over a tropical temperature range. Algal fragments of intertidally occurring Gelidiopsis planicaulis (Taylor) Taylor, Wurdemannia miniata (Duby) Feldman and Hamel, and Hypnea spinella (Agardh) Kützing, and the subtidal species Bryothamnion triquetrum (Gmelin) Howe and Heterosiphonia gibbesii (Harvey) Falkenberg were repeatedly subjected to artificial UVBR and ultraviolet-A radiation (UVAR: 320–400 nm) at 22, 26 and 30°C, whereas exposure to photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) served as control. Growth rates, optimal quantum yield of PSII and accumulation of DNA damage were monitored for 10 days, whereas the relative abundance of the D1 reaction centre binding protein and the presence of UV absorbing compounds were investigated in some samples. UVAR and UVBR significantly depressed growth rates of all species. UVBR exposure caused accumulation of DNA damage and resulted in stronger growth reduction than UVAR. UVBR and UVAR caused a depression of optimal quantum yield and a lower D1 abundance. However, the former recovered fast and acclimated to the UV treatments. Some species produced UV absorbing compounds in response to UVAR. UV exposure caused less pronounced effects in intertidally occurring species than in subtidal species. UV effects on growth, the accumulation of DNA damage and UV induced depression of optimal quantum yield were independent of temperature in most species. We conclude that high UVBR in tropical regions may depress in situ growth rates of these intertidal and subtidal red macrophytes.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00090.x
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    Photosynthesis of two Arctic macroalgae under different ambient radiation levels and their sensitivity to enhanced UV radiation (2000)
    Springer
    Polar biology 23 (2000), S. 257-264 
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    ISSN: 1432-2056
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The change in optimal quantum efficiency (F v/F m) of the Arctic species Laminaria saccharina and Palmaria palmata was investigated in a long-term experiment in situ under different radiation levels during the summer of 1997 in the Kongsfjord (Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen, Norway, 78°55.5′N, 11°56.0′E). Whole plants were incubated in an open box system made of UV-transparent Perspex and exposed to solar radiation (λ〉295 nm), solar radiation excluding UVB (λ 〉 320 nm) and solar radiation excluding UVA + UVB (λ 〉 400 nm). Increasing radiation levels were simulated by transplantation of the pre-adapted algae from their growth depth at 2 m to a water depth of 1 m. Sensitivity to artificially increased UV radiation was determined by exposure of algae from the three treatments to 6 h of strong UV radiation. P. palmata was relatively insensitive to increasing UV radiation and recovered very fast and almost completely in 2 h. Even plants pre-cultured in ambient radiation levels excluding UVA + UVB or UVB only showed no photoinhibition after exposure to extra UV radiation in the laboratory. L. saccharina was, in comparison to P. palmata, more sensitive and showed photoinhibition under solar radiation and solar minus UVB radiation after transplantation from 2 to 1 m water depth. However, after 3 weeks at 1 m depth, F v/F m of L. saccharina was equal in all treatments and restored to the original values at the start of the experiment. Sensitivity to extra UV radiation in the laboratory increased in time, although recovery was also fast and occurred within 20 h.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003000050442
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    Effects of ultraviolet radiation on photosynthesis and related enzyme reactions of marine macroalgae (2000)
    Springer
    Planta 211 (2000), S. 555-562 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Key words: Macroalgae – Photosynthesis – Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase – UV radiation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract.  Changes in physiological parameters related to photosynthesis were studied in five macroalgal species from Spitsbergen (Monostroma arcticum, Laminaria solidungula, Alaria esculenta, Palmaria palmata, Phycodrys rubens) during a 72-h exposure to UV radiation. Maximal quantum yield of photochemistry (Fv/Fm) and maximal electron transport rate (ETRmax) were measured with a pulse-amplitude-modulated fluorometer; the activity of the Calvin cycle enzymes ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH) were estimated using a photometric test. Proteins of crude extracts were separated by SDS gel electrophoresis and changes in cellular concentrations of Rubisco were determined. Moreover, the concentration of chlorophyll a (Chl a), and protein content, were measured photometrically. In all species, Chl a content, maximal quantum yield as well as ETRmax decreased during the UV treatment. Changes in ETRmax were related to the changes in the overall activity of Rubisco. Analysis of SDS gels showed that in P. rubens, L. solidungula, M. arcticum and A. esculenta decreasing Rubisco activity partly resulted from a degradation of the enzyme. However, in A. esculenta, the formation of a high-molecular-weight polypeptide was observed. In all species, the activity of Rubisco was more strongly impaired than that of G3PDH. Exposure to UV resulted in loss of total protein only in the deepwater species L. solidungula and P. rubens. The different sensitivities to UV exposure of the species tested reflect their zonation pattern in the field.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004250000313
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    Heading northward to Scandinavia: Undaria pinnatifida in the northern Wadden Sea (2018)
    WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO
    In:  EPIC3Botanica Marina, WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO, pp. 365-371, ISSN: 0006-8055
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    Publication Date: 2018-11-12
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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    Short- and long-term acclimation patterns of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) along a depth gradient (2016)
    In:  EPIC3Journal of Phycology, 52(2), pp. 260-273
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    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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    Short-term transcriptomic responses to temperature and salinity stress in sporophytes of the kelp Saccharina latissima (2018)
    In:  EPIC317. Tagung der Sektion Phykologie in der Deutschen Botansichen Gesellschaft, Berchtesgarden, Haus der Berge, 2018-03-11-2018-03-14Berchtesgarden
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    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Description: Climate change is significantly impacting the structure and function of marine ecosystems world wide with implications for species distribution ranges. In coastal systems, climate change may also alter other abiotic factors such as salinity, which may decrease due increased glacial melting in the Arctic or precipitation in temperate regions. Despite the prime ecological importance of kelps (order Laminariales) which dominate rocky benthic ecosystems in temperate to polar regions, the acclimation mechanisms and transcriptomic responses remain understudied. Here, we investigate the physiological and transcriptomic responses in sporophytes of the sugar kelp, Saccharina latissima to salinity stress after acclimation to temperature and their nterrelationships. Juvenile sporophytes of a strain from Roscoff, France were pre-cultivated at 8°C and 30 PSU for three months. After seven days of acclimation to 0°C and 15°C, sporophytes were exposed to a low salinity treatment (20 PSU) for 24 h. We established a reference transcriptome from all reads obtained through Illumina HiSeq. A total of 205 363 transcripts were assembled containing 135 959 “Trinity’s genes”. Gene expression is mostly driven by salinity stress than by temperature. The highest number of regulated genes, in comparison to the control, was found in response to the treatment 0°C low salinity (3003), followed by 8°C low salinity (1491) and 15°C low salinity (1158). Moreover, only few genes (168) were found to be differentially expressed in all low salinity treatments, showing that the response to low salinity is modulated by temperature. Growth, photosynthetic efficiency and pigment content were also impacted by stress.
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    Impact of light and iron availability on Antarctic phytoplankton ecophysiology. (2018)
    In:  EPIC3POLAR2018 SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 2018-06-19-2018-06-23
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    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Description: Although iron (Fe) availability sets primarily the rate of phytoplankton growth and primary and export production in the Southern Ocean, other environmental factors, most significantly light, also affect productivity. Due to wind-induced vertical mixing, the total irradiance dose can be reduced, but exposing phytoplankton also to periods of excessive irradiance when residing near the surface. As these dynamic alterations between low and high irradiance in low Fe-waters are important drivers of species distribution, we investigated the effects of light (20, 200 and 500 μmol photons m−2 s−1) in combination with low and high Fe availability (0.4 and 2 nM Fe) on the physiology of the two ecologically relevant species Chaetoceros debilis and Phaeocystis antarctica. Fe-limited cells of P. antarctica displayed similar high growth rates at all irradiances. In comparison, Fe-limited C. debilis cells grew much slower under low and medium irradiance and were unable to grow at the highest irradiance. Compared to C. debilis Fe-limited P. antarctica cells fixed more particulate organic carbon at all irradiances. When exposed to short-term excessive irradiances C. debilis could cope better than P. antarctica under low Fe conditions, but this was at the expense of lowered carbon production. Overall, our results show that P. antarctica was more tolerant to changes in the availability of Fe and light, providing it a competitive advantage under a dynamic light regime in Fe-deficient waters.
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    Impact of ocean acidification and high solar radiation on productivity and species composition of a late summer phytoplankton community of the coastal Western Antarctic Peninsula (2019)
    In:  EPIC3Limnol Oceanogr
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    Publication Date: 2019-03-12
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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