Team leaders

Publications ‘The living Barents Sea’

Randi Ingvaldsen
RF3 leader
Institute of Marine Research
randi.ingvaldsen@hi.no

Bodil Bluhm
RF3 co-leader
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
bodil.bluhm@uit.no

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

Bodur YV, Renaud PE, Goraguer L, Amarant-Arumí M, Assmy P, Dqbrowska AM, Marquardt M, Renner AHH, Tatarek A, Reigstad M (2023) Seasonal patterns of vertical flux in the Northwestern Barents Sea under Atlantic Water influence and sea-ice decline. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103132. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103132

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

Freitas C, Gundersen K, Lindblom L, Biuw MHaug T (2023) Nutrient concentrations in minke whale faeces and the potential impact on dissolved nutrient pools off Svalbard, Norway. Progress in Oceanography 210: 102927. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102927

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

Ingvaldsen RBEriksen EGjøsæter H, Engås A, Schuppe BK, Assmann KMCannaby HDalpadado PBluhm BA (2023) Under-ice observations by trawls and multi-frequency acoustics in the Central Arctic Ocean reveals abundance and composition of pelagic fauna. Scientific Reports 13: 1000. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27957-x

Jordà-Molina È, Renaud PE, Silberberger MJ, Sen A, Bluhm BA, Carroll ML, Ambrose WG, Cottier F, Reiss H (2023) Seafloor warm water temperature anomalies impact benthic macrofauna communities of a high-Arctic cold-water fjord. Marine Environmental Research 106046. doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106046

Jordà-Molina È, Sen A, Bluhm BA, Renaud PE, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M, Legeżyńska J, Oleszczuk B, Reiss H (2023) Łąck of strong seasonality in macrobenthic communities from the northern Barents Sea shelf and Nansen Basin. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103150. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103150

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

Koch CW, Brown TA, Amiraux R, Ruiz-Gonzalez C, MacCorquodale M, Yunda-Guarin GA, Kohlbach D, Loseto LL, Rosenburg B, Hussey NE, Ferguson S, Yurkowski DJ (2023). Year-round utilization of sea ice-associated carbon in Arctic ecosystems. Nature Communications 14: 1964. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37612-8

Kohlbach D, Goraguer L, Bodur YV, Müller O, Amargant-Arumí M, Blix K, Bratbak G, Chierici M, AM Dąbrowska, U Dietrich, B Edvardsen, LM García, R Gradinger, H Hop, E Jones, Ø Lundesgaard, LM Olsen, M Reigstad, K Saubrekka, A Tatarek, JM Wiktor, A Wold, P Assmy (2023) Earlier sea-ice melt extends the oligotrophic summer period in the Barents Sea with low algal biomass and associated low vertical flux. Progress in Oceanography 213: 103018.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103018

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, Aerflot 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

Marquardt M, Goraguer L, Assmy 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

Polyakov IV, Ingvaldsen RB, Pnyushkov AV, Bhatt US, Francis JA, Janout M, Kwok R, Øystein S (2023) Fluctuating Atlantic inflows modulate Arctic atlantification. Science 381 (6661): 972-979 DOI: 10.1126/science.adh5158

Rabault J, Müller M, Voermans J, Brazhnikov D, Marchenko A, Biuw M, Nose T, Waseda T, Johansson M, Breivik Ø, Sutherland G, Hole LR, Johnson M, Jensen A,  Gundersen O, Kristoffersen Y, Babanin A, Tedesco P, Christensen KH, Kristiansen M, Hope G, Kodaira T, de Aguiar V, Taelman C, Quigely CP, Filchuk K, Mahoney AR (2023) A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. Scientific Data 10, 251. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02160-9

Schartmüller B, Anderson P, McKee D, Connan-McGinty S, Kopec TP, Daase M, Johnsen G, Berge J (2023) Development and calibration of a high dynamic range and autonomous ocean-light instrument to measure sub-surface profiles in ice-covered waters. Applied Optics62(31), 8308-8315. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.502437

Thiele S, Vader A, Thomson S, Saubrekka K, Petelenz E, Armo HR, Müller O, Olsen L, Bratbak G, Øvreås L (2023) The summer bacterial and archaeal community composition of the northern Barents Sea. Progress in Oceanography  215, 103054. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103054

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1345

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

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

Wernström JV, Slater BJ, Sørensen MV, Crampton D, Altenburger A (2023). Geometric morphometrics of macro- and meiofaunal priapulid pharyngeal teeth provides a proxy for studying Cambrian “tooth taxa”. Zoomorphology. doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00617-4

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

Ziegler AF, Bluhm BA, Renaud PE, Jørgensen LL (2023) Isotope turnover in polar cod (Boreogadus saida) muscle determined through a controlled feeding experiment. Journal of Fish Biology  1–13. doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15389

Ziegler AF, Bluhm BA, Renaud PE, Jørgensen LL (2023) Weak seasonality in benthic food web structure within an Arctic inflow shelf region. Progress in Oceanography 103109. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103109

2022

Carlyle CG, Roth JD, Yurkowski DJ, Kohlbach D, Young BG, Brown TA, Riget FF, Dietz R, Ferguson SH (2022) Spatial variation in carbon source use and trophic position of ringed seals across a latitudinal gradient of sea ice. Ecological Indicators 145: 109746. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109746

Cautain IJ, Last KS, McKee D, Bluhm BA, Renaud PE, Zielger AF, Narayanaswamy BE (2022) Uptake of sympagic organic carbon by the Barents Sea benthos linked to sea ice seasonality. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1009303

Descôteaux R, Huserbråten M, Jørgensen LLRenaud PEIngvaldsen RB, Ershova EA, Bluhm BA (2022) Origin of marine invertebrate larvae on an Arctic inflow shelf. Marine Ecology Progress Series 699: 1-17. doi.org/10.3354/meps14170

Desforges JP, Kohlbach D, Carlyle CG, Michel C, Loseto LL, Rosenberg B, Yurkowski DJ, Ferguson SH (2022) Multi-dietary tracer approach reveals little overlap in foraging ecology between seasonally sympatric ringed and harp seals in the high Arctic. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 969327. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.969327

Duarte PAssmy P, Campbell K, Sundfjord A (2022) The importance of turbulent ocean-sea ice nutrient exchanges for simulation of ice algal biomass and production with CICE6.1 and Icepack 1.2. Geoscientific Model Development 15(2): 841-857. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-841-2022

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

Dybwad C, Lalande C, Bodur YV, Henley SF, Cottier F, Ershova EA, Hobbs L, Last KS, Dabrowska AM, Reigstad M (2022) The influence of sea ice cover and Atlantic water advection on annual particle export north of Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127: e2022JC0018897. doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018897 

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

Jørgensen LL, Pecuchet L, Ingvaldsen RBPrimicerio R (2022) Benthic transition zones in the Atlantic gateway to a changing Arctic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 204: 102792. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102792

Kohlbach D, Smik L, Belt ST, Hop H, Wold A, Graeve M, Assmy P (2022) A multi-trophic marker approach reveals high feeding plasticity in Barents Sea under-ice fauna. Progress in Oceanography 20: 102895. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102895

MacKenzie KM, Lydersen C, Haug T, Routti H, Aars J, Andvik CM, Borgå K, Fisk AT, Meier S, Biuw M, Lowther AD, Lindstrøm U, Kovacs KM (2022) Niches of marine mammals in the European Arctic. Ecological Indicators 136: 108661. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108661

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

Patrohay E, Gradinger R, Marquardt M, Bluhm BA (2022) First trait-based characterization of Arctic ice meiofauna taxa. Polar Biology  doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03099-0

Schaafsma FL, David CL, Kohlbach D, Ehrlich J, Castellani G, Lange BA, Vortkamp M, Meijboom A, Fortuna-Wunsch A, Immerz A, Cantzler H, Klasmeier A, Zakharova N, Schmidt K, Van de Putte AP, van Franeker JA, Flores H (2022) Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish species. Polar Biology 45: 203-224. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02984-4

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

Thingstad TF, Øvreås L, Vadstein O (2022) Mechanisms generating dichotomies in the life strategies of heterotrophic marine prokaryotes. Diversity 14: 217. doi.org/10.3390/d14030217

Åström EKL, Bluhm BA, Rasmussen TL (2022) Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic trophic support from cold seeps in Arctic benthic communities. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.910558

2021

Aune M, Raskhozheva E, Andrade H, Augustine S, Bambulyak A, Camus L, Carroll J, Dolgov AV, Hop H, Moiseev D, Renaud PE, Varpe Ø (2021) Distribution and ecology of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) in the eastern Barents Sea: A review of historical literature. Marine Environmental Research 166: 105262. doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105262

Bundy A, Renaud PE, Coll M, Koenigstein S, Niiranen S, Pennino MG, Tam JC, Travers-Trolet M (2021) Editorial: Managing for the future: challenges and approaches for disentangling the relative roles of environmental change and fishing in marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.753459

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

Duarte P, Meyer A, Moreau S (2021) Nutrients in water masses in the Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean: temporal trends, mixing and links with primary production. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126: e2021JC017413. doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017413

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

Haug T, Biuw M, Gjøsæter H, Knutsen T, Lindstrøm U, MacKenzie KM, Meier S, Nilssen KT (2021) Harp seal body condition and trophic interactions with prey in Norwegian high Arctic waters in early autumn. Progress in Oceanography 191: 102498. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102498

Ingvaldsen RB, Assmann KM, Primicerio R, Fossheim M, Polyakov IV, Dolgov AV (2021) Physical manifestations and ecological implications of Arctic Atlantification. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00228-x

Kohlbach D, Hop H, Wold A, Schmidt K, Smik L, Belt ST, Keck Al-Habahbeh A, Woll M, Graeve M, Dąbrowska AM, Tatarek A, Atkinson A, Assmy P (2021) Multiple trophic markers trace dietary carbon sources in Barents Sea zooplankton during late summer. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:610248. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.610248

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

Müller O, Seuthe L, Pree B, Bratbak G, Larsen A, Paulsen ML (2021) How microbial food web interactions shape the Arctic Ocean bacterial community revealed by size fractionation experiments. Microorganisms 9: 2378. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112378

Solvang HK, Haug T, Knutsen T, Gjøsæter H, Bogstad B, Hartvedt S, Øien N, Lindstrøm U (2021) Distribution of rorquals and Atlantic cod in relation to their prey in the Norwegian high Arctic. Polar Biologydoi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02835-2

2020

Berge J, Johnsen G, Cohen JH (2020) Polar Night Marine Ecology – Life and Light in the Dead of Night. Spinger Advances in Polar Ecology. pp 367. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33208-2

Eriksen E, Bagøien E, Strand E, Primicerio R, Prokhorova T, Trofimov A, Prokopchuk I (2020) The record-warm Barents Sea and 0-Group fish response to abnormal conditions. Frontiers in Marine
Science 7: 338. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00338

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

Solan M, Archambault P, Renaud PE, März C (2020) The changing Arctic Ocean: consequences for
biological communities, biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functioning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378:
20200266. doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0266

Thingstad TF (2020) How trophic cascades and photic zone nutrient content interact to generate basin-scale differences in the microbial food web. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77: 1639-1647.
doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa028