Abstract
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet leading to rapid and fundamental changes in environmental conditions. Unicellular algae constituting the basis of the marine food web respond to these complex changes by changes in the timing, quantity and quality of their blooms. In the recently completed projectFAABulous: Future Arctic Algae Blooms – and their role in the context of climate change we have studied several aspects of algal responses, including their physiological state during Polar night, responses to high light and ocean acidification, and variability of lipid and stable isotope trophic markers.
Speaker
Eva Leu, Akvaplan NIVA