Floating ice-algal aggregates below melting arctic sea ice.

During two consecutive cruises to the Eastern Central Arctic in late summer 2012, we observed floating algal aggregates in the melt-water layer below and between melting ice floes of first-year pack ice. The macroscopic (1-15 cm in diameter) aggregates had a mucous consistency and were dominated by...

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Main Authors: Philipp Assmy, Jens K Ehn, Mar Fernández-Méndez, Haakon Hop, Christian Katlein, Arild Sundfjord, Katrin Bluhm, Malin Daase, Anja Engel, Agneta Fransson, Mats A Granskog, Stephen R Hudson, Svein Kristiansen, Marcel Nicolaus, Ilka Peeken, Angelika H H Renner, Gunnar Spreen, Agnieszka Tatarek, Jozef Wiktor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3804104?pdf=render