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First phytoplankton community assessment of the Kong Håkon VII Hav, Southern Ocean, during austral autumn
Hanna M. Kauko
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Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
Philipp Assmy
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
Ilka Peeken
Polar Biological Oceanography, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Magdalena Różańska-Pluta
Marine Protist Laboratory, Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
Józef M. Wiktor
Marine Protist Laboratory, Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
Gunnar Bratbak
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen,
Norway
Asmita Singh
Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO), Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Cape Town, South Africa
Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch,
South Africa
Thomas J. Ryan-Keogh
Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO), Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Cape Town, South Africa
Sebastien Moreau
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
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This article studies phytoplankton (microscopic
plantsin the ocean capable of photosynthesis) in Kong Håkon VII Hav in the Southern Ocean. Different species play different roles in the ecosystem, and it is therefore important to assess the species composition. We observed that phytoplankton blooms in this area are formed by large diatoms with strong silica armors, which can lead to high silica (and sometimes carbon) export to depth and be important prey for krill.
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