Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research

Larval dispersal modeling suggests limited ecological connectivity between fjords on the West Antarctic Peninsula

(2020) A F Ziegler et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Intense deposition and rapid processing of seafloor phytodetritus in a glaciomarine fjord, Andvord Bay (Antarctica)

(2020) A.F. Ziegler et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Vulnerability of Antarctica’s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture

(2020) Ching-Yao Lai et al.   NATURE

Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming

(2019) Angus Atkinson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Epifaunal community response to iceberg-mediated environmental change in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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Degradation of macroalgal detritus in shallow coastal Antarctic sediments

(2019) U. Braeckman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Complex life under the McMurdo Ice Shelf, and some speculations on food webs

(2019) Stacy Kim   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Basal melting of Ross Ice Shelf from solar heat absorption in an ice-front polynya

(2019) Craig L. Stewart et al.   Nature Geoscience

Variability and change in the west Antarctic Peninsula marine system: Research priorities and opportunities

(2019) Sian F. Henley et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Antarctic Futures: An Assessment of Climate-Driven Changes in Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Service Provisioning in the Southern Ocean

(2019) A.D. Rogers et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Physiology and Distribution of Archaeal Methanotrophs That Couple Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane with Sulfate Reduction

(2019) S. Bhattarai et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Subglacial Plumes

(2019) Ian J. Hewitt   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles

(2019) E. L. Cavan et al.   Nature Communications

Highly variable iron content modulates iceberg-ocean fertilisation and potential carbon export

(2019) Mark J. Hopwood et al.   Nature Communications

Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode

(2019) W. A. Dickens et al.   Scientific Reports

Hydrography and energetics of a cold subpolar fjord: Andvord Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula

(2019) Øyvind Lundesgaard et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Variable Basal Melt Rates of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves, 1994-2016

(2018) Susheel Adusumilli et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Modeling the dynamic response of outlet glaciers to observed ice-shelf thinning in the Bellingshausen Sea Sector, West Antarctica

(2018) BRENT M. MINCHEW et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Changes in the upper ocean mixed layer and phytoplankton productivity along the West Antarctic Peninsula

(2018) Oscar Schofield et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Spring–summer net community production, new production, particle export and related water column biogeochemical processes in the marginal sea ice zone of the Western Antarctic Peninsula 2012–2014

(2018) Hugh W. Ducklow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Time- and depth-wise trophic niche shifts in Antarctic benthos

(2018) Edoardo Calizza et al.   PLoS One

Evaluating Southern Ocean Carbon Eddy-Pump From Biogeochemical-Argo Floats

(2018) Joan Llort et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Freshening by glacial meltwater enhances melting of ice shelves and reduces formation of Antarctic Bottom Water

(2018) Alessandro Silvano et al.   Science Advances

The scientific response to Antarctic ice-shelf loss

(2018) Jeroen Ingels et al.   Nature Climate Change

Challenging Dogma Concerning Biogeographic Patterns of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

(2018) Kenneth M. Halanych et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Labile organic carbon dynamics in continental shelf sediments after the recent collapse of the Larsen ice shelves off the eastern Antarctic Peninsula: A radiochemical approach

(2018) E. Isla et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century

(2017) T.A. Scambos et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Stirring Up the Biological Pump: Vertical Mixing and Carbon Export in the Southern Ocean

(2017) Michael R. Stukel et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Controls on dissolved and particulate iron distributions in surface waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

(2017) Amber L. Annett et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

Glacial dropstones: islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords

(2017) AF Ziegler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Climatically sensitive transfer of iron to maritime Antarctic ecosystems by surface runoff

(2017) Andy Hodson et al.   Nature Communications

The health of Antarctic ice shelves

(2017) Olivier Gagliardini   Nature Climate Change

Impacts of the Larsen-C Ice Shelf calving event

(2017) Anna E. Hogg et al.   Nature Climate Change

The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica

(2017) R. Reese et al.   Nature Climate Change

Glacial dropstones: islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords

(2017) AF Ziegler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The winter pack-ice zone provides a sheltered but food-poor habitat for larval Antarctic krill

(2017) Bettina Meyer et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Taxonomic variability of phytoplankton and relationship with production of CDOM in the polynya of the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

(2016) Yoon Chang Lee et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

How well do global ocean biogeochemistry models simulate dissolved iron distributions?

(2016) Alessandro Tagliabue et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Iceberg killing fields limit huge potential for benthic blue carbon in Antarctic shallows

(2016) David K. A. Barnes   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Surprising episodic recruitment and growth of Antarctic sponges: Implications for ecological resilience

(2016) Paul Dayton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise

(2016) Robert M. DeConto et al.   NATURE

Very slow embryonic and larval development in the Antarctic limpet Nacella polaris

(2016) Lloyd S. Peck et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Where glaciers meet water: Subaqueous melt and its relevance to glaciers in various settings

(2016) Martin Truffer et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula

(2016) A. J. Cook et al.   SCIENCE

Rethinking the Role of Salps in the Ocean

(2016) Natasha Henschke et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Meltwater produced by wind–albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf

(2016) J. T. M. Lenaerts et al.   Nature Climate Change

Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

(2016) Peter U. Clark et al.   Nature Climate Change

The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves

(2016) Johannes Jakob Fürst et al.   Nature Climate Change

Iron supply and demand in an Antarctic shelf ecosystem

(2015) D. J. McGillicuddy et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The imbalance of new and export production in the western Antarctic Peninsula, a potentially “leaky” ecosystem

(2015) Michael R. Stukel et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

A first overview of open access digital data for the Ross Sea: complexities, ethics, and management opportunities

(2015) Falk Huettmann et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Copepod summer grazing and fecal pellet production along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2015) Miram R. Gleiber et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Diversity and distribution within the sea spider genus Pallenopsis (Chelicerata: Pycnogonida) in the Western Antarctic as revealed by mitochondrial DNA

(2015) Avril M. Harder et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Ocean-driven thinning enhances iceberg calving and retreat of Antarctic ice shelves

(2015) Yan Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Community dynamics of nematodes after Larsen ice-shelf collapse in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula

(2015) Freija Hauquier et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Foehn winds link climate-driven warming to ice shelf evolution in Antarctica

(2015) M. R. Cape et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

In situ phytoplankton distributions in the Amundsen Sea Polynya measured by autonomous gliders

(2015) Oscar Schofield et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Estuarine removal of glacial iron and implications for iron fluxes to the ocean

(2014) Andrew W. Schroth et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

(2014) Andrew J. Constable et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large salp bloom export from the upper ocean and benthic community response in the abyssal northeast Pacific: Day to week resolution

(2014) K. L. Jr. Smith et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability

(2014) P. Dutrieux et al.   SCIENCE

Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2014) M. Rebesco et al.   SCIENCE

Winter and spring controls on the summer food web of the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

(2014) Grace K. Saba et al.   Nature Communications

Long-term iceshelf-covered meiobenthic communities of the Antarctic continental shelf resemble those of the deep sea

(2014) Armin Rose et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Microzooplankton grazing along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2013) LM Garzio et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The macro- and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of the eastern Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

(2013) Katrin Linse et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Modern sedimentation, circulation and life beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

(2013) A.L. Post et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Rapid Glass Sponge Expansion after Climate-Induced Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

(2013) Laura Fillinger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Primary production export flux in Marguerite Bay (Antarctic Peninsula): Linking upper water-column production to sediment trap flux

(2013) Keith Weston et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

The potential role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global biogeochemical cycles

(2013) J. L. Wadham et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Acclimation and thermal tolerance in Antarctic marine ectotherms

(2013) L. S. Peck et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Feeding and overwintering of Antarctic krill across its major habitats: The role of sea ice cover, water depth, and phytoplankton abundance

(2013) Katrin Schmidt et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Sympagic-pelagic-benthic coupling in Arctic and Atlantic waters around Svalbard revealed by stable isotopic and fatty acid tracers

(2013) Janne E. Søreide et al.   Marine Biology Research

Inorganic C utilization and C isotope fractionation by pelagic and sea ice algal assemblages along the Antarctic continental shelf

(2013) PD Tortell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Calving fluxes and basal melt rates of Antarctic ice shelves

(2013) M. A. Depoorter et al.   NATURE

West Antarctic Peninsula: An Ice-Dependent Coastal Marine Ecosystem in Transition

(2013) Hugh Ducklow et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

A Shift in the Biogenic Silica of Sediment in the Larsen B Continental Shelf, Off the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula, Resulting from Climate Change

(2013) Elisabet Sañé et al.   PLoS One

Recruitment, Growth and Mortality of an Antarctic Hexactinellid Sponge, Anoxycalyx joubini

(2013) Paul K. Dayton et al.   PLoS One

Shifts in Antarctic megabenthic structure after ice-shelf disintegration in the Larsen area east of the Antarctic Peninsula

(2013) Julian Gutt et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica

(2013) E. Rignot et al.   SCIENCE

Polynya dynamics drive primary production in the Larsen A and B embayments following ice shelf collapse

(2013) Mattias R. Cape et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Summertime grazing impact of the dominant macrozooplankton off the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Kim S. Bernard et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Annual changes in sea ice and phytoplankton in polynyas of the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

(2012) Kevin R. Arrigo et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Iron from melting glaciers fuels the phytoplankton blooms in Amundsen Sea (Southern Ocean): Iron biogeochemistry

(2012) Loes J.A. Gerringa et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Export production and its regulating factors in the West Antarctica Peninsula region of the Southern Ocean

(2012) Kuan Huang et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Time series of vertical flux of zooplankton fecal pellets on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) MR Gleiber et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

(2012) H. D. Pritchard et al.   NATURE

Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

(2012) Hartmut H. Hellmer et al.   NATURE

Islands of Ice: Influence of Free-Drifting Antarctic Icebergs on Pelagic Marine Ecosystems

(2012) Maria Vernet et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

The Changing Carbon Cycle in the Southern Ocean

(2012) Taro Takahashi et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Pelagic-Benthic Coupling, Food Banks, and Climate Change on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf

(2012) Craig Smith et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Exposure-age record of Holocene ice sheet and ice shelf change in the northeast Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Greg Balco et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Possible effects of global environmental changes on Antarctic benthos: a synthesis across five major taxa

(2012) Jeroen Ingels et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Benthic macrofauna assemblages and biochemical properties of sediments in two Antarctic regions differently affected by climate change

(2011) E. Sañé et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Maud Rise – a snapshot through the water column

(2011) A. Brandt et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Fatty acid patterns of Southern Ocean shelf and deep sea peracarid crustaceans and a possible food source, foraminiferans

(2011) Laura Würzberg et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Antarctic macrozooplankton of the southwest Atlantic sector and Bellingshausen Sea: Baseline historical distributions (Discovery Investigations, 1928–1935) related to temperature and food, with projections for subsequent ocean warming

(2011) A.P. Mackey et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Variable food absorption by Antarctic krill: Relationships between diet, egestion rate and the composition and sinking rates of their fecal pellets

(2011) A. Atkinson et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Convection-Driven Melting near the Grounding Lines of Ice Shelves and Tidewater Glaciers

(2011) Adrian Jenkins   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Chemical speciation of iron in Antarctic waters surrounding free-drifting icebergs

(2011) Hai Lin et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

Characterisation of the Nematode Community of a Low-Activity Cold Seep in the Recently Ice-Shelf Free Larsen B Area, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula

(2011) Freija Hauquier et al.   PLoS One

Physico-ecobiogeochemistry of East Antarctic pack ice during the winter-spring transition

(2010) Klaus M. Meiners et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Ectosymbiosis associated with cidaroids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) promotes benthic colonization of the seafloor in the Larsen Embayments, Western Antarctica

(2010) C. Hardy et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Biodiversity change after climate-induced ice-shelf collapse in the Antarctic

(2010) Julian Gutt et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Faunal evidence for a late quaternary trans-Antarctic seaway

(2010) DAVID K. A. BARNES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Photophysiology in Two Major Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Taxa: Photosynthesis and Growth of Phaeocystis antarctica and Fragilariopsis cylindrus under Different Irradiance Levels

(2010) K. R. Arrigo et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Pigments in sediments beneath recently collapsed ice shelves: The case of Larsen A and B shelves, Antarctic Peninsula

(2010) E. Sañé et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Colonisation of hard substrata along a channel system in the deep Greenland Sea

(2010) Miriam Schulz et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Antarctic sea ice change and variability – Physical and ecological implications

(2010) Robert A. Massom et al.   Polar Science

Ice shelf disintegration by plate bending and hydro-fracture: Satellite observations and model results of the 2008 Wilkins ice shelf break-ups

(2009) Ted Scambos et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Negative feedback in the cold: ice retreat produces new carbon sinks in Antarctica

(2009) L. S. PECK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Response of nematode communities after large-scale ice-shelf collapse events in the Antarctic Larsen area

(2009) M. RAES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biogeochemical conditions and ice algal photosynthetic parameters in Weddell Sea ice during early spring

(2009) Klaus Martin Meiners et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Cryptic mitochondrial lineages in the widespread pycnogonid Colossendeis megalonyx Hoek, 1881 from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters

(2009) Kathrin Krabbe et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Phytoplankton production after the collapse of the Larsen A Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2009) M. Lila Bertolin et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Recent Changes in Phytoplankton Communities Associated with Rapid Regional Climate Change Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2009) M. Montes-Hugo et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity of an unknown Antarctic Sea: assessing isopod richness and abundance in the first benthic survey of the Amundsen continental shelf

(2009) Stefanie Kaiser et al.   Marine Biodiversity

High Latitude Changes in Ice Dynamics and Their Impact on Polar Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Mark A. Moline et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Adult Antarctic Krill Feeding at Abyssal Depths

(2008) Andrew Clarke et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sympagic occurrence of Eusirid and Lysianassoid amphipods under Antarctic pack ice

(2008) Rupert H. Krapp et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Long-term studies of the marine ecosystem along the west Antarctic Peninsula

(2008) Hugh W. Ducklow   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Sedimentary pigments in the western Barents Sea: A reflection of pelagic–benthic coupling?

(2008) Nathalie Morata et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Trophic structure on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf: Detritivory and benthic inertia revealed by δ13C and δ15N analysis

(2008) Sarah L. Mincks et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Primary production within the sea-ice zone west of the Antarctic Peninsula: I—Sea ice, summer mixed layer, and irradiance

(2008) Maria Vernet et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

A recount of Ross Sea waters

(2008) Alejandro H. Orsi et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Defecation by Salpa thompsoni and its contribution to vertical flux in the Southern Ocean

(2008) Brennan Phillips et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling

(2008) Eric Rignot et al.   Nature Geoscience