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Epibenthos dynamics and environmental fluctuations in two contrasting polar carbonate factories (Mosselbukta and Bjørnøy-banken, svalbard)

Wisshak, Max ; Neumann, Hermann ; Rüggeberg, Andres ; Büscher, Janina V. ; Linke, Peter ; Raddatz, Jacek

In: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019, vol. 6, p. -

The Arctic Svalbard Archipelago hosts the world’s northernmost cold-water ‘carbonate factories’ thriving here despite of presumably unfavourable environmental conditions and extreme seasonality. Two contrasting sites of intense biogenic carbonate production, the rhodolith beds in Mosselbukta in the north of the archipelago and the barnacle-mollusc dominated carbonate sediments...