The living Barents Sea response to peak-warming and subsequent cooling.

ABSTRACT: The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, with maximum warming in the Barents Sea. Concurrently, changes in species distribution in this productive and highly exploited sub-Arctic hotspot has been found. However, studies so far have mostly focused on the effect of gradual warming on single species or trophic groups. We assess changes in zooplankton, fish and zoobenthos assemblages (130 species in 23 groups) and found heterogeneous response to ongoing warming. Temporally constrained cluster analysis showed that the warming was not continuous over the study period 2005-2022 but occurred in three phases: an initial period (2005-2011) cooler than the average for the whole study period, followed by a very warm period (2012-2016) and finally a cooler period again (2017-2

SUBMITTER: Eriksen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12000424 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature