Team leaders

Publications ‘Human impacts’

Sissel Jentoft
RF2 leader
University of Oslo
sissel.jentoft@ibv.uio.no

Melissa Chierici
RF2 co-leader
Institute of Marine Research
melissa.chierici@hi.no

2024

Albini D, Lutier M., Heimböck MP,Heuschele J, Søreide JE, Jackson MC, Dinh KV (2024). Temporal patterns in multiple stressors shape the vulnerability of overwintering Arctic zooplankton. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11673. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11673

Amargant-Arumí M, Müller O, Bodur YV, Ntinou IV, Vonnahme T, Assmy P, Kohlbach D, Chierici M, Jones E, Olsen LM, Tsagaraki TM, Reigstad M, Bratbak G, Gradinger R (2024) Interannual differences in sea ice regime in the north-western Barents Sea cause major changes in summer pelagic production and export mechanisms. Progress in Oceanography220, p.103178. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103178

Brun NR, Yadetie F, Liestøl HT, Karlsen OA, Goksøyr A (2024). Transcriptome responses to benzo[a]pyrene in liver slices of sub-arctic fish species. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1425221. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1425221

Dupont N, Durant JM, Langangen Ø, Stige LC (2024) Changes in prey-predator interactions in an Arctic food web under climate change. Progress in Oceanography229, 103380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103380

Durant JM, Dupont N, Ono K, Langangen Ø (2024) Interaction between three key species in the sea ice-reduced Arctic Barents Sea system. Proceedings Royal Society B, 291:20241408. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1408

Durant JM, Holt RE, Langangen Ø (2024) Large biomass reduction effect on the relative role of climate, fishing, and recruitment on fish population dynamics. Scientific Reports 14, 8995. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59569-4

Flo S, Svensen C, Præbel K, Bluhm BA, Vader A (2024) Dietary plasticity in small Arctic copepods as revealed with prey metabarcoding. Journal of Plankton Research, fbae042. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbae042

Flo S, Vader A, Præbel K (2024) Brute force prey metabarcoding to explore the diets of small invertebrates. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11369. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11369

Gawinski C, Daase M, Primicerio R, Amargant-Arumí M, Müller O, Wold A, Ormańczyk MR, Kwasniewski S, Svensen C (2024). Response of the copepod community to interannual differences in sea-ice cover and water masses in the northern Barents Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1308542. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1308542

Heuschele J, Dinh KV, Lode T, Jager T, Borgå K(2024) Arctic copepod copper sensitivity and comparison with Antarctic and temperate copepods. Ecotoxicology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-024-02796-2

Kalhagen K, Skogseth R, Baumann TM, Falck E, Fer I (2024) An emerging pathway of Atlantic Water to the Barents Sea through the Svalbard Archipelago: drivers and variability. Ocean Science, 20, 981–1001. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-981-2024

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, Hop H, Wold A, Schmidt K, Smik L, Belt ST, Woll M, Graeve M, Goraguer L, Foss Ø, Assmy P (2024) Ice algae as supplementary food rather than major energy source for the Barents Sea zooplankton community. Progress in Oceanography 229:103368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103368

Kohler SG, Heimbürger-Boavida LE, Assmy P, Müller O, Thiele S, Digernes MG, Ndungu K, Ardelan MV. Biotic transformation of methylmercury at the onset of the Arctic spring bloom. Progress in Oceanography, 222, 103224. org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103224

Karlsson K, Søreide JE (2024) Exploring the role of body mass in temperature-driven changes in metabolic rates of Arctic copepods. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsae188, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae188

Langangen Ø, Durant JM (2024) Persistence of fish populations to longer, more intense, and more frequent mass mortality events. Global Change Biology, 30, e17251. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17251

Pérez FF, Becker M, Goris N, Gehlen M, López‐Mozos M, Tjiputra J, Olsen A, Müller JD, Huertas IE, Chau TTT, Caínzos V, Velo A, Bernard G, Hauck J, Gruber N, Wanninkhof R (2024). An Assessment of CO2Storage and Sea‐Air Fluxes for the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Between 1985 and 2018. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. American Geophysical Union (AGU). http://doi.org/10.1029/2023gb007862

Planque B, Bas L, Biuw M, Blanchet MA, Bogstad B, Eriksen E, Drouineau H, Hansen C, Husson B, Mousing EA, Mullon C, Pedersen T, Skogen MD, Slotte A, Staby A, Lindstrøm U (2024) A food-web assessment model for marine mammals, fish, and fisheries in the Norwegian and Barents Seas. Progress in Oceanography, 229, 103361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103361

2023

Aarflot JM, Eriksen E, Prokopchuk IP, Svensen C, Søreide JE, Wold A, Skogen MD (2023) New insights into the Barents Sea Calanus glacialis population dynamics and distribution. Progress in Oceanography 103106. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103106

Andvik C, Haug T, Lyche JL, Borgå K (2023) Emerging and legacy contaminants in common minke whale from the Barents Sea. Environmental Pollution 121001. doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121001

Anglada-Ortiz G, Meilland J, Ziveri P, Chierici M, Fransson A, Jones E, Rasmussen TL (2023) Seasonality of marine calcifiers in the northern Barents Sea: Spatiotemporal distribution of planktonic foraminifers and shelled pteropods and their contribution to carbon dynamics. Progress in Oceanography218, 103121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103121 

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

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

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

EspinelVelasco N, Gawinski C, Kohlbach D, Pitusi V, Graeve M, Hop H (2023) Interactive effects of ocean acidification and temperature on oxygen uptake rates in Calanus hyperboreus nauplii. Frontiers in Marine Science10, 1240673. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1240673

Fransner F, Olsen A, Årthun M, Counillon F, Tjiputra J, Samuelsen A, Keenlyside N (2023) Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 4, 141. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00791-9

Geoffroy M, Bouchard C, Flores H, Robert D, Gjøsæter H, Hoover C, Hop H, Hussey NE, Nahrgang J,Steiner N, Bender M, Berge J, Castellani G, Chernova N, Copeman L, David CL, Deary A, Divoky G, Dolgov AV, Duffy-Anderson J, Dupont NDurant JM, Elliott K, Gauthier S, Goldstein ED, Gradinger R, Hedges K, Herbig J, Laurel B, Loseto L, Maes S, Mark FC, Mosbech A, Pedro S, Pettitt-Wade H, Prokopchuk I, Renaud PE, Schembri S, Vestfals C, Walkusz W (2023) The circumpolar impacts of climate change and anthropogenic stressors on Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) and its ecosystem. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene11(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00097

Gerland S,  Ingvaldsen RB, Reigstad M,  Sundfjord A, Bogstad B, Chierici M, Hop H, Renaud PE, Smedsrud LH, Stige LC, Årthun M, Berge J, Bluhm BA, Borgå K, Bratbak G, Divine DV, Eldevik T, Eriksen E, Fer I, Fransson A, Gradinger R, Granskog MA, Haug T, Husum K, Johnsen G, Jonassen MO, Jørgensen LL, Kristiansen S, Larsen A, Lien VS, Lind S, Lindstrøm U, Mauritzen C, Melsom A, Mernild SH, Müller M, Nilsen F, Primicerio R, Søreide JE, van der Meeren GI, Wassmann P (2023) Still Arctic?—The changing Barents Sea. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11 (1): 00088. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00088

Gjøsæter H, Ingvaldsen RI, Hallfredsson EH, Johannesen E. (2023) Fish assemblages at the Yermak Plateau and in northern Svalbard water during the period 2012-2020, Progress in Oceanography 219, 103156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103156

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, Fer I, Chierici M, Fransson A, Jones E, Kolås EH (2023) Diffusive and advective fluxes of inorganic nutrients and dissolved inorganic carbon in the Barents Sea in autumn. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103161

Kohlbach D, Lebreton B, Guigou G, Wold A, Hop H, Graeve M, Assmy P (2023) Dependency of Arctic zooplankton on pelagic food sources: New insights from fatty acid and stable isotope analyses. Limnology and Oceanography 9999: 1-13. doi.org/10.1002/lno.12423

Langbehn TJ, Aarflot JM, Freer JJ, Varpe Ø (2023) Visual predation risk and spatial distributions of large Arctic copepods along gradients of sea ice and bottom depth. Limnology and Oceanography. doi.org/10.1002/lno.12354

Nilsen I, Fransner F, Olsen A, Tjiputra J, Hordoir R, Hansen C (2023) Trivial gain of downscaling in future projections of higher trophic levels in the Nordic and Barents Seas. Fisheries Oceanography 1-15. doi.org/10.1111/fog.12641

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

Renner AHH, Bailey A, Reigstad M, Sundfjord A, Chierici M, Jones E (2023) Hydrography, inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll a linked to sea ice cover in the Atlantic Water inflow region north of Svalbard. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103162

Strople LC, Vieweg I, Yadetie F, Odei DK, Thorsen A, Karlsen OA, Goksøyr A, Sørensen L, Sarno A, Hansen BH, Frantzen M, Hansen ØJ, Puvanendran V, Nahrgang J (2023) Spawning time in adult polar cod (Boreogadus saida) altered by crude oil exposure, independent of food availability. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15287394.2023.2228535 

VanEngeland T, Bagøien E, Wold A, Cannaby HA, Majaneva S, Vader A, Rønning J, Handegard NO, Dalpadado P, Ingvaldsen 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

2022

Borgå K, McKinney MA, Routti H, Fernie KJ, Giebichenstein J, Hallanger I, Muir DCG (2022) The influence of global climate change on accumulation and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in Arctic food webs. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00469G

Dietz R, Letcher RJ, Aars J, Andersen M, Boltunov A, Born EW, Ciesielski TM, Das K, Dastnai S, Derocher AE, Desforges J-P, Eulaers I, Ferguson S, Hallanger IG, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Heimbürger-Boavida L-E, Hoekstra PF, Jenssen BM, Kohler SG, Larsen MM, Lindstrøm U, et al. (2022) A risk assessment review of mercury exposure in Arctic marine and terrestrial mammals. Science of The Total Environment 829: 154445. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154445

Dinh KV, Konestabo HS, Borgå KHylland K, Macaulay SJ, Jackson MC, Verheyen J, Stoks R (2022) Interactive effects of warming and pollutants on marine and freshwater invertebrates. Current Pollution Reports 8: 341-359. doi.org/10.1007/s40726-022-00245-4

Dunse T, Dong K, Aas KS, Stige LC (2022) Regional-scale phytoplankton dynamics and their association with glacier meltwater runoff in Svalbard. Biogeosciences 19(2): 271-294. doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-271-2022

Durant JM, Ono K, Langangen O (2022) Empirical evidence of nonlinearity in bottom up effect in a marine predator-prey system. Biology Letters 18: 20220309. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0309

Finne EA, Varpe ØDurant JGabrielsen GW, Poste A (2022) Nutrient fluxes from an Arctic seabird colony to the adjacent coastal marine ecosystem. Polar Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03024-5

Fransner F, Fröb F, Tjiputra J, Goris N, Lauvset SK, Skjelvan I, Jeansson E, Omar A, Chierici M, Jones E, Fransson A, Ólafsdóttir SR, Johannessen T, Olsen A (2022) Acidification of the Nordic Seas. Biogeosciences 19: 979-1012. doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-979-2022

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

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

Nilsen I, Hansen C, Kaplan I, Holmes E, Langangen Ø (2022) Exploring the role of Northeast Atlantic cod in the Barents Sea food web using a multi-model approach. Fish and Fisheries n/a. doi.org/10.1111/faf.12671

Skjoldal HR, Eriksen EGjøsæter HSkagseth Ø, Prozorkevich DA, Lien VS (2022) Recruitment variability of fish stocks in the Barents Sea: spatial and temporal variation in 0-group fish length of six commercial species during recent decades of warming (1980–2017). Progress in Oceanography 206: 102845. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102845

Vieweg I, Bender ML, Semenchuk PR, Hop H, Nahrgang J (2022) Effects of chronic crude oil exposure on the fitness of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) through changes in growth, energy reserves and survival. Marine Environmental Research 174: 105545. doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105545

Yadetie F, Brun NR, Giebichenstein J, Dmoch K, Hylland K, Borgå K, Karlsen OA, Goksøyr A (2022) Transcriptome responses in copepods Calanus finmarchicus, Calanus glacialis and Calanus hyperboreus exposed to phenanthrene and benzo[a]pyrene. Marine Genomics 65: 100981. 
doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2022.100981

2021

Anglada-Ortiz G, Zamelczyk K, Meilland J, Ziveri P, Chierici M, Fransson A, Rasmussen TL (2021) Planktic foraminiferal and pteropod contributions to carbon dynamics in the Arctic Ocean (North Svalbard Margin). Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.661158

Becker M, Olsen A, Landschützer P, Omar A, Rehder G, Rödenbeck C, Skjelvan I (2021) The northern European shelf as an increasing net sink for CO2. Biogeosciences 18: 1127-1147. doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1127-2021

Dupont N, Durant JM, Gjøsæter H, Langangen Ø, Stige LC (2021) Effects of sea ice cover, temperature and predation on the stock dynamics of the key Arctic fish species polar cod Boreogadus saida. Marine Ecology Progress Series 677: 141-159. doi.org/10.3354/meps13878

Garnett J, Halsall C, Vader A, Joerss H, Ebinghaus R, Leeson A, Wynn PM (2021) High concentrations of perfluoroalkyl acids in Arctic seawater driven by early thawing sea ice. Environmental Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01676

Gopakumar A, Giebichenstein 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

Ilyina T, Li H, Spring A, Müller WA, Bopp L, Chikamoto MO, Danabasoglu G, Dobrynin M, Dunne J, Fransner F, Friedlingstein P, Lee W, Lovenduski NS, Merryfield WJ, Mignot J, Park JY, Séférian R, Sospedra-Alfonso R, Watanabe M, Yeager S (2021) Predictable variations of the carbon sinks and atmospheric CO2 growth in a multi-model framework. Geophysical Research Letters n/a: e2020GL090695. doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090695

Jones EM, Chierici M, Menze S, Fransson A, Ingvaldsen RB, Lødemel HH (2021) Ocean acidification state variability of the Atlantic Arctic Ocean around northern Svalbard. Progress in Oceanography 199: 102708. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102708

Yadetie F, Brun NR, Vieweg I, Nahrgang J, Karlsen OA, Goksøyr A (2021) Transcriptome responses in polar cod (Boreogadus saida) liver slice culture exposed to benzo[a]pyrene and ethynylestradiol: insights into anti-estrogenic effects. Toxicology in Vitro 75: 105193. doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2021.105193

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

2020

Cayuela H, Rougemont Q, Laporte M, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Dorant Y, Tørresen OK, Hoff SNK, Jentoft S, Sirois P, Castonguay M, Jansen T, Praebel K, Clément M, Bernatchez L (2020) Shared ancestral polymorphisms and chromosomal rearrangements as potential drivers of local adaptation in a marine fish. Molecular Ecology 29: 2379-2398. doi.org/10.1111/mec.15499

Dong K, Kvile Ø K, Stenseth NC, Stige LC (2020) Associations among temperature, sea ice and phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the Barents Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 635: 25-36. doi.org/10.3354/meps13218

Dupont N, Durant JM, Langangen Ø, Gjøsæter H, Stige LC (2020) Sea ice, temperature, and prey effects on annual variations in mean lengths of a key Arctic fish, Boreogadus saida, in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77: 1796-1805. doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa040

Fransner F, Counillon F, Bethke I, Tjiputra J, Samuelsen A, Nummelin A, Olsen A (2020) Ocean biogeochemical prediction: Initialization and limits of predictability. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 386. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.003863

Gjøsæter H, Huserbråten M, Vikebø F, Eriksen E (2020) Key processes regulating the early life history of Barents Sea polar cod. Polar Biology 43: 1015-1027. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02656-9

Nilsen I, Kolding J, Hansen C, Howell D (2020) Exploring balanced harvesting by using an Atlantis Ecosystem Model for the Nordic and Barents Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:70. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00070

Polyakov IV, Alkire MB, Bluhm BA, Brown KA, Carmack EC, Chierici M, Danielson SL, Ellingsen I, Ershova EA, Gårdfeldt K, Ingvaldsen RB, Pnyushkov AV, Slagstad D, Wassmann P (2020) Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in response to anomalous advection from sub-Arctic Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 491. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00491

Stige L (2020) The Polar Sea Ice Melts: What Happens to the Fish Under the Ice?. Frontiers of Young Minds. 8: 91. doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.00091

2019

Borgå K (2019) The Arctic ecosystem: A canary in the coal mine for global multiple stressors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 38: 487-488. doi.org/10.1002/etc.4360

Stige LC, Eriksen E, Dalpadado P, Ono K (2019) Direct and indirect effects of sea ice cover on major zooplankton groups and planktivorous fishes in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76: i24-i36. doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz063