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Further reading

Cannaby H, Ingvaldsen RB, Lundesgaard Ø, Renner AHH, Skaret G, Sakinan SS, Hovland T, Chierici M, Gjøsæter H (2023) Environmental controls on macrozooplankton and fish distributions over diurnal to seasonal time scales in the northern Barents Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 219, p.103159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103159

Connan-McGinty S, Banas NS, Berge J, Cottier F, Grant S, Johnsen G, Kopec TP, Porter M, McKee D (2022) Midnight sun to polar night: a model of seasonal light in the Barents Sea. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14:10. doi.org/10.1029/2022ms003198

Descôteaux R, Ershova E, Wangensteen OS, Præbel K, Renaud PE, Cottier F, Bluhm BA (2021) Meroplankton diversity, seasonality and life-history traits across the Barents Sea Polar Front revealed by high-throughput DNA barcoding. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.677732

Dinh KV, Albini D, Orr JA, Macaulay SJ, Rillig MC, Borgå K, Jackson MC (2023) Winter is coming: Interactions of multiple stressors in winter and implications for the natural world. Global Change Biology, 29(24), 6834-6845. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16956

Dörr J, Årthun M, Docquier D, Li C, Eldevik T (2024) Causal links between sea-ice variability in the Barents-Kara Seas and oceanic and atmospheric drivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108195.  doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108195

Dörr J, Årthun M, Eldevik T, Sandø AB (2024) Expanding influence of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean heat transport on winter sea‐ice variability in a warming Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans129(2), e2023JC019900. doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019900

Dörr J, Årthun M, Eldevik T, Madonna E (2021) Mechanisms of regional winter sea-ice variability in a warming Arctic. Journal of Climate 34: 8635-8653. doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0149.1

Ericson Y, Fransson A, Chierici M, Jones EM, Skjelvan I, Omar A, Olsen A, Becker M (2023) Rapid fCO2 rise in the northern Barents Sea and Nansen Basin. Progress in Oceanography 217, 103079 doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103079

Geoffroy M, Langbehn T, Priou P, Varpe Ø, Johnsen G, Le Bris A, Fisher JAD, Daase M, McKee D, Cohen J, Berge J (2021) Pelagic organisms avoid white, blue, and red artificial light from scientific instruments. Scientific Reports 11: 14941. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94355-6

Gopakumar AGiebichenstein J, Raskhozheva E, Borgå K (2021) Mercury in Barents Sea fish in the Arctic polar night: Species and spatial comparison. Marine Pollution Bulletin 169: 112501. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112501

Jones EM, Chierici M, Fransson A, Assmann KM, Renner AHH, Lødemel HH (2023) Inorganic carbon and nutrient dynamics in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea: seasonality and implications for ocean acidification. Progress in Oceanography, 219, p.103131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103131

Karlsson K, Søreide JE (2023) Linking the metabolic rate of individuals to species ecology and life history in key Arctic copepods. Marine Biology 170, 156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04309-x

Koenig Z, Muilwijk M, Sandven H, Lundesgaard Ø, Assmy P, Lind S, Assmann KM, Chierici M, Fransson A, Gerland S, Jones E, Renner AHH, Granskog MA (2024) From winter to late summer in the northwestern Barents Sea shelf: Impacts of seasonal progression of sea ice and upper ocean on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics. Progress in Oceanography220, p.103174. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103174

Kohlbach D, Schmidt K, Hop H, Wold A, Al-Habahbeh AK, Belt ST, Woll M, Graeve M, Smik L, Atkinson A, Assmy P (2021) Winter carnivory and diapause counteract the reliance on ice algae by Barents Sea zooplankton. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.640050

Kohler SG, Heimbürger-Boavida L-E, Petrova MV, Digernes MG, Sanchez N, Dufour A, Simić A, Ndungu K, Ardelan MV (2022) Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf. Nature Geoscience. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00986-3

Kohler SGKull LM, Heimbürger-Boavida L-E, Ricardo de Freitas TSanchez N, Ndungu K, Ardelan MV (2022) Distribution pattern of mercury in northern Barents Sea and Eurasian Basin surface sediment. Marine Pollution Bulletin 185:114272. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114272

Lundesgaard Ø, Sundfjord A, Lind S, Nilsen F, Renner AHH (2022) Import of Atlantic Water and sea ice controls the ocean environment in the northern Barents Sea. Ocean Science 18: 1389–1418. doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1389-2022

Lundesgaard Ø, Sundfjord A, Renner AHH (2021) Drivers of interannual sea ice concentration variability in the Atlantic Water inflow region north of Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans n/a: e2020JC016522. doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016522

Palerme C, Müller M, Melsom A (2019) An intercomparison of verification scores for evaluating the sea ice edge position in seasonal forecasts. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 4757-4763. doi.org/10.1029/2019GL0824825

Summers N, Fragoso GM, Johnsen G (2023) Photophysiologically active green, red and brown macroalgae living in the Arctic Polar Night. Scientific reports, 12:17971. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44026-5 

Summers N, Johnsen G, Mogstad A, Løvås H, Fragoso G, Berge J (2022) Underwater hyperspectral imaging of Arctic macroalgal habitats during the Polar Night using a novel Mini-ROV-UHI portable system. Remote Sensing 14: 1325. doi.org/10.3390/rs14061325

Thiele S, Vader A, Thomson S, Saubrekka K, Petelenz E, Müller O, Bratbak GØvreås L (2023) Seasonality of the bacterial and archaeal community composition of the Northern Barents Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology14, 1213718. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1213718

Thiele S, Vader A, Øvreås L (2023) The mystery of the ice cold rose—Microbiome of an Arctic winter frost flower. MicrobiologyOpen 12(1), e1345. doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1345

Tran D, Andrade H, Camus L, Leopold P, Ballantine C, Berge J, Durier G, Sow M, Ciret P (2024) Evidence of separate influence of moon and sun on light synchronization of mussel’s daily rhythm during the polar night. iScience, 26(3), 106168 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106168

Madonna E, Battisti DS, Li C, White RH (2021) Reconstructing winter climate anomalies in the Euro-Atlantic sector using circulation patterns. Weather Clim Dynam 2: 777-794. doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-777-2021

Madonna E, Hes G, Li C, Michel C, Siew PYF (2020) Control of Barents Sea wintertime cyclone variability by large-scale atmospheric flow. Geophysical Research Letters 47: e2020GL090322. doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090322

Marangoni LF, Davies T, Smyth T, Rodríguez A, Hamann M, Duarte C, Pendoley K, Berge J, Maggi E, Levy O (2022) Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems – a review. Global Change Biology  28(18): 5346-5367. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16264

Marquardt MGoraguer LAssmy P, Bluhm BA, Aaboe S, Down E, Patrohay E, Edvardsen B, Tatarek A, Smola Z, Wiktor J, Gradinger R (2023) Seasonal Dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea. Progress in Oceanography 218, 103128. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103128

Nowicki RCBorgå KGabrielsen GWVarpe Ø (2023) Energy content of krill and amphipods in the Barents Sea from summer to winter: variation across species and size. Polar Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03112-0

van Engeland TBagøien EWold ACannaby HAMajaneva SVader A, Rønning J, Handegard NODalpadado PIngvaldsen RB (2023) Diversity and seasonal development of large zooplankton along physical gradients in the Arctic Barents Sea. Progress in Oceanography 103065.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103065

Wold A, Hop H, Svensen C, Søreide JE, Assmann KM, Ormanczyk M, Kwasniewski S (2023) Atlantification influences zooplankton communities seasonally in the northern Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 103133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103133

Zamelczyk K, Fransson A, Chierici M, Jones E, Meilland J, Anglada-Ortiz G, Lødemel HH (2021) Distribution and abundances of planktic foraminifera and shelled pteropods during the Polar Night in the sea-ice covered Northern Barents Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.644094

Årthun M, Eldevik T, Smedsrud LH (2019) The Role of Atlantic heat transport in future arctic winter sea ice loss. Journal of Climate 32: 3327-3341. doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0750.1

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