Smallest Algae Thrive As the Arctic Ocean Freshens

By William K. W. Li, F. McLaughlin, C. Lovejoy, E. Carmack. Science, 2009

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Climate warming and ectotherm body size – from individual physiology to community ecology (2013, background): “and marine ecosystems (Li et al. 2009; Yvon-Durocher et al. 2011; Taylor et al. 2012).”
Seasonal microbial processes in a high-latitude fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard): I. Heterotrophic bacteria, picoplankton and nanoflagellates (2011, background): “Our multivariate statistical analysis thus implies that these minute organisms can beneWt from climate-induced alterations in physical and biochemical properties of Kongsfjorden and adjacent water masses in the Arctic, as proposed by Li et al. (2009).”
Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity (2014, background): “Increases in production are associated with wind-driven upwelling at the shelf break and at the ice edge in the coastal regions [Mundy et al., 2009; Tremblay et al., 2011] in contrast to central basins where stratification prevails [Li et al., 2009].”
Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change (2011, background): “In some cases, smaller individuals are favoured by warmer or drier conditions, decreasing the mean size in a given population, as has already been observed in various tax”
Biological Response to Recent Pacific Arctic Sea Ice Retreats (2010, background): “A shift to smaller algal species sizes with Arctic Ocean freshening [Li et al., 2009] may affect food web structure and carbon cycling with continued warming.”
Arctic microbial community dynamics influenced by elevated CO2 levels (2012, background): “Moreover, increased surface water temperature and glacier and sea-ice melt will strengthen vertical stratiﬁca-tion, which in the Canadian Arctic waters has been reported to stimulate picophytoplankton and reduce nanophytoplank-ton abundance (Li et al., 2009).”
Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries (2014, background): “Potentially, this increase in primary production could be off-set by declines in the spatial extent of ice algal blooms, and changes in oceanic algal species composition to a smaller size (Li et al., 2009).”
The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: a first-attempt assessment (2011, background): “2009), as recently recorded by increasing abundances of small-sized (<2 μm in diameter) phytoplankton cells and decreasing nanophytoplankton cells (Li et al. 2009).”
Potential movement of fish and shellfish stocks from the sub-Arctic to the Arctic Ocean (2013, background): “Li et al. (2009) hypothesized that increased stratification and extended ice-free periods in summer could cause nitrogen limitation in the upper ocean in the Canadian Basin which could favor of smaller cells and reduced productivity.”
Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem (2011, background): “Based upon the project Canada’s Three Oceans (C3O; dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/Publications/article/2008/17-06-2008-eng.htm), Li et al. (2009) provide a first example of such investigations.”
Marine DNA viral macro- and micro-diversity from pole to pole (2019, background): “Specifically, two distinct zones—definable by climatology-derived water mass nutrient stoichiometry (N*) (Figure 7D; see ‘‘Comparing ARC-H and ARC-L’’ in STAR Methods)—emerged as high (ARC-H) and low (ARC-L) diversity regions that were significantly differentiable at both macro- and microdiversity l”
Temperature, resources, and phytoplankton size structure in the ocean (2012, background): “It has also been shown that freshening-induced stratification leads to reduced nutrient availability for surface phytoplankton in some parts of the Arctic, favoring smaller cells (Li et al. 2009).”
Pelagic fish and zooplankton species assemblages in relation to water mass characteristics in the northern Bering and southeast Chukchi seas (2012, background): “A reduction in phytoplankton cell size with warming was observed in Arctic waters (Li et al. 2009), due to increased surface”
Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. (2012, background): “Smallest algae thrive as the Arctic Ocean freshens.”