First of an Arctic sea ice meiofauna food web analysis based on abundance, biomass and stable isotope ratios

2020 ◽  
Vol 634 ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Gradinger ◽  
BA Bluhm
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 676
Author(s):  
Eva Leu ◽  
Thomas A. Brown ◽  
Martin Graeve ◽  
Jozef Wiktor ◽  
Clara J. M. Hoppe ◽  
...  

Assessing the relative importance of sea ice algal-based production is often vital for studies about climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems. Several types of lipid biomarkers and stable isotope ratios are widely used for tracing sea ic-associated (sympagic) vs. pelagic particulate organic matter (POM) in marine food webs. However, there has been limited understanding about the plasticity of these compounds in space and time, which constrains the robustness of some of those approaches. Furthermore, some of the markers are compromised by not being unambiguously specific for sea ice algae, whereas others might only be produced by a small sub-group of species. We analyzed fatty acids, highly branched isoprenoids (HBIs), stable isotope ratios of particulate organic carbon (POC) (δ13C), as well as δ13C of selected fatty acid markers during an Arctic sea ice algal bloom, focusing on spatial and temporal variability. We found remarkable differences between these approaches and show that inferences about bloom characteristics might even be contradictory between markers. The impact of environmental factors as causes of this considerable variability is highlighted and explained. We emphasize that awareness and, in some cases, caution is required when using lipid and stable isotope markers as tracers in food web studies and offer recommendations for the proper application of these valuable approaches.


2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (12) ◽  
pp. 8887-8901
Author(s):  
L. Tian ◽  
Y. Gao ◽  
S. F. Ackley ◽  
S. Stammerjohn ◽  
T. Maksym ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 2191-2200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Solomon ◽  
Stephen R. Carpenter ◽  
James A. Rusak ◽  
M. Jake Vander Zanden

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios are increasingly used to study long-term food web change. Temporal variation at the base of the food web may impact the accuracy of trophic niche estimates, but data describing interannual baseline variation are limited. We quantified baseline variation over a 23-year period in a north-temperate lake and used a simulation model to examine how this variation might affect consumer trophic niche estimates. Interannual variation in C and N stable isotope ratios was significant for both benthic and pelagic primary consumer baselines. Long-term linear trends and shorter-term autoregressive patterns were apparent in the data. There were no correlations among benthic and pelagic C and N baselines. Simulations demonstrated that error in estimated fish trophic niches, but not bias, increased substantially when sampling of baselines was incomplete. Accurate trophic niche estimates depended more on accurate estimation of baseline time series than on accurate estimation of growth and turnover rates. These results highlight the importance of previous and continued efforts to constrain bias and error in long-term stable isotope food web studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Ehrman ◽  
Carie Hoover ◽  
Carolina Giraldo ◽  
Shannon A. MacPhee ◽  
Jasmine Brewster ◽  
...  

Abstract Objectives Existing information on Arctic marine food web structure is fragmented. Integrating data across research programs is an important strategy for building a baseline understanding of food web structure and function in many Arctic regions. Naturally-occurring stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) measured directly in the tissues of organisms are a commonly-employed method for estimating food web structure. The objective of the current dataset was to synthesize disparate δ15N, and secondarily δ13C, data in the Canadian Beaufort continental shelf region relevant to trophic and ecological studies at the local and pan-Arctic scales. Data description The dataset presented here contains nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios (δ15N, δ13C) measured in marine organisms from the Canadian Beaufort continental shelf region between 1983 and 2013, gathered from 27 published and unpublished sources with associated sampling metadata. A total of 1077 entries were collected, summarizing 8859 individual organisms/samples representing 333 taxa across the Arctic food web, from top marine mammal predators to primary producers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 106738
Author(s):  
Md. Khorshed Alam ◽  
Junjiro N. Negishi ◽  
Mirza A.T.M. Tanvir Rahman ◽  
Janine Rodulfo Tolod

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 3370-3377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaso Fortibuoni ◽  
Seta Noventa ◽  
Federico Rampazzo ◽  
Claudia Gion ◽  
Malgorzata Formalewicz ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
RB Spies ◽  
H Kruger ◽  
R Ireland ◽  
DW Rice

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