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DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages 21-36Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.08.012
Keywords
Zooplankton; Composition; Distribution; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Hanna Shoal
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Funding
- Ocean Energy Management
- U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region, Anchorage, Alaska [M11AC00007]
- University of Texas at Austin as part of the Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) Project
- BOEM Alaska Environmental Studies Program
- National Science Foundation (MRI) [DBI-0215393]
- National Science Foundation (EPSCoR) [0554548, EPS-1004057]
- US Department of Agriculture [2002-34438-12688, 2003-34438-13111]
- University of Rhode Island
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Hanna Shoal, in the northeastern Chukchi Sea, is potentially vulnerable to ecosystem disruption under ongoing climate change, however aspects of its ecology, particularly of its zooplankton, have been poorly understood. Mesozooplankton distribution, taxonomic composition, and abundance were described from across Hanna Shoal in August 2012 and 2013 as part of the multidisciplinary COMIDA Hanna Shoal Program. Zooplankton were collected using vertical tows of paired Bongo nets equipped with 150-mu m and 500-mu m mesh nets; samples from the 150-mu m mesh nets were enumerated to identify and count taxa, copepod species, and copepod life stages. Haplotypes of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (mtCOI) gene were used to differentiate Bering and Arctic haplotype groups of the copepod Calanus glacialis and to differentiate C. glacialis and its close congener C. marshallae. The meroplankton, particularly bivalve larvae and in 2012 echinoderm larvae, were an important component of the zooplankton and were of greater abundance on the eastern portion of the Shoal than elsewhere. Regions identified on the basis of different taxonomic compositions were associated with different water masses and current pathways. The northeast corner of the Shoal in particular was distinct from the remainder of the Shoal and from Barrow Canyon, with both different life stage compositions and unique Arctic haplotypes of the mtCOI gene for C. glacialis/marshallae, suggesting populations at those locations originated in the Arctic Ocean rather than the Bering Sea. Bering Sea Summer water, and intrinsic plankton, was observed in the southwest portion of the Shoal. Comparisons with historic and recent studies done near Hanna Shoal demonstrated that similar plankton compositions were present across a broad region of the Chukchi Sea and that abundances of the copepod C. glacialis appear to be increasing on the time scale of decades, potentially through increased input from the northern Bering Sea. Because the Chukchi Sea is highly advective, it is likely that zooplankton populations over Hanna Shoal are lost to the Canada Basin to the north and must be re-established annually through input from the northern Bering Sea. Under this scenario, enhancement of a resident Hanna Shoal zooplankton community that would retain a significant proportion of the primary production in the water column is unlikely.
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