Diatoms and the Ecological Conditions of Their Growth in Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean
- 20 May 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 152 (3725), 1089-1090
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.152.3725.1089
Abstract
A summer field survey off Point Barrow, Alaska, revealed that Arctic sea ice develops a growth of phytoplanktonic diatoms. The diatoms are found in a brine solution in microfissures between ice crystals on the underside of the ice. The chlorophyll content of this layer is 100 times more than that of the surrounding sea waters; this has led to a hypothesis that a considerable fraction of the primary production of the Arctic Sea may be carried out in sea ice, especially during the spring and early summer months.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Productivity of Microalgae in Antarctic Sea IceScience, 1965
- Microbiology of Antarctic Sea-ice: Microalgae and Antarctic Sea-iceNature, 1963
- On the Chemical Composition of Eleven Species of Marine PhytoplanktersJournal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1961