ice-edge

For look you, who cares for flowers where flowers always are? in my country, after the iron winter breaks and the sun drives away the long night, the first blossoms twinkling on the melting ice-edge are things of joy, and we look, and look again.

Chapter 17 2010

Daw slashed the wheel-dog's traces with his sheath-knife, and the animal whipped over the ice-edge and was gone.

THE END OF THE STORY 2010

The projected disappearance of seasonal sea ice from the Barents and Bering Seas (and thus elimination of ice-edge blooms) implies that these areas would have blooms resembling those of more southerly seas.

Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota 2009

Altered sea mammal distributions (especially for polar bears and ringed seals), as well as more northerly distribution of ice-edge phytoplankton blooms, zooplankton, and fish

Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009

Because the early 1970s were cold compared to the late 1950s, it may be that the difference in zoobenthos biomass related to changes in the southern limit of the ice edge and thus to the amount of ice-edge primary production that fell to the benthos, ungrazed by pelagic zooplankton.

Past variability in Arctic marine systems 2009

Unstable sea ice could make ice-edge hunting more difficult and dangerous.

Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic 2009

Typically, an ice-edge bloom unfolds in a 20 to 100 km wide belt south of the northward-retreating ice edge.

Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic 2009

Near multi-year ice in the Arctic Ocean, melting is delayed until July, resulting in a short growing season [18], and in the ice-filled regions of the Greenland Sea, late melting can delay the ice-edge bloom until late May as far south as the Denmark Strait [19].

Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic 2009

After the ice-edge bloom, primary production becomes very low in the strongly stratified waters, with nutrients near the limit of detection [20].

Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic 2009

The ice-edge bloom generally begins in mid-April to early May at the southernmost fringes of the first-year ice, both in the Barents and Bering Seas and in the Labrador/Newfoundland region [17].

Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic 2009