Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland
Nature Geoscience(2023)
Abstract
The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is accelerating, with glaciers shifting from marine to land termination and potential consequences for fjord ecosystems downstream. Monthly samples in 2016 in two fjords in southwest Greenland show that subglacial discharge from marine-terminating glaciers sustains high phytoplankton productivity that is dominated by diatoms and grazed by larger mesozooplankton throughout summer. In contrast, melting of land-terminating glaciers results in a fjord ecosystem dominated by bacteria, picophytoplankton and smaller zooplankton, which has only one-third of the annual productivity and half the CO 2 uptake compared to the fjord downstream from marine-terminating glaciers.
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downstream fjord ecosystem structure
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