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A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine ... frontiersin.org Oct 25, 2024 16 facts
referenceThe study 'Spatial patterns, mechanisms, and predictability of Barents Sea ice change' was published in the Journal of Climate, volume 35, pages 2961–2973, in 2022, detailing ice dynamics in the Barents Sea.
referenceEriksen et al. (2017) published 'Spatial and temporal changes in the Barents Sea pelagic compartment during the recent warming' in Progress in Oceanography, documenting ecological changes in the Barents Sea.
referenceBogstad et al. (2015) reviewed the competition for food between cod and marine mammals in the Barents Sea.
claimSea ice cover has direct and indirect effects on major zooplankton groups and planktivorous fishes in the Barents Sea, as reported by L. C. Stige, E. Eriksen, P. Dalpadado, and K. Ono in 2019.
claimThe Atlantic Arctic is influenced by mixed Atlantic Water entering the Barents Sea via two currents: one flowing eastward into the southern Barents Sea and one flowing north along the west coast of Svalbard, as described by Ingvaldsen et al. (2021).
claimNew migratory movements have led to overlaps between species, causing disruptions in food webs and altered predator-prey relationships, such as the competition for prey between Atlantic cod and marine mammals in the Barents Sea, as reported by Bogstad et al. (2015).
claimSome polar bear populations exhibit exceptions to standard migration patterns, such as denning on sea ice in the Beaufort Sea and a portion of the Barents Sea population remaining ashore year-round.
referenceOttersen, G., Bogstad, B., Yaragina, N. A., Stige, L. C., Vikebø, F. B., and Dalpadado, P. A. published the paper 'Review of early life history dynamics of Barents Sea cod (Gadus morhua)' in the ICES Journal of Marine Science in 2014.
referencePolar cod (Boreogadus saida) and capelin (Mallotus villosus) serve as key species in the marine food webs of the Arctic and the Barents Sea, as described in a 2013 study by Hop and Gjøsæter.
claimCapelin juveniles and sub-adults undertake feeding migrations along the east coast of Greenland, in the eastern Fram Strait, and in the Barents Sea to the slopes of the Arctic Ocean.
referenceAtlantic cod larvae drift from spawning sites in northern Norway into the Barents Sea via the Norwegian Coastal Current, according to research by Ottersen et al. (2014).
referenceHunt Jr. et al. (1996) studied marine birds in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea during late winter and spring.
claimThe establishment of new northern gannet colonies in the Arctic is associated with the northward movement of prey species like herring (Clupea harengus) and mackerel, driven by the warming of the Barents Sea.
claimThe volume and temperature of currents entering the Barents Sea have changed over recent decades, causing dramatic alterations to sea-ice conditions at high latitudes, according to Efstathiou et al. (2022), Isaksen et al. (2022), and Polyakov et al. (2023).
referenceEzhov et al. (2021) published 'Transpolar and bi-directional migration strategies of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla from a colony in Novaya Zemlya, Barents Sea, Russia' in Marine Ecology Progress Series, detailing the migration patterns of this bird species.
referenceCarscadden et al. (2013) compared recent changes in the distribution of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the Barents Sea, around Iceland, and in the Northwest Atlantic, as published in Progress in Oceanography.