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Winners and Losers of Atlantification: The Degree of Ocean Warming Affects the Structure of Arctic Microbial Communities
The concurrent effects of atlantification warming show a clear thermal limit for many Arctic microbes between 6°C and 9°C with differential functional implications for the ecosystem.
Publication: Ahme et al. 2023, Genes
Expedition to Svalbard in summer 2023
Investigation of changes in oceanographic properties as well as plankton diversity and activities and their effects on primary production and biogeochemical fluxes along a gradient of atlantification.
R/V Heincke: 12.08 - 03.09.2023
MIDIDARC & MarineBasis-Nuuk
AWI scientists Sylke Wohlrab and Jakob Giesler participated in this year's MarineBasis-Nuuk Monitoring Expedition to collect samples for their MIDIDARC project (Microbial Diversity of Arctic Diatom Microbiomes).
R/V Sanna, Nuuk, Greenland
23.04.2023-01.05.2023