Biodiversity and Fluxes in Glacial Arctic Fjords (BIODAFF)

Biodiversity:

Biodiversity and Fluxes in Glacial Arctic Fjords (BIODAFF)

Published: March 30, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: November 28, 2011, 8:49 am

Lead Author: Steve Baum

Topics:

Biodiversity

Environmental Monitoring

Oceans and seas

Environmental Chemistry

This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: C Michael Hogan

Biodiversity and Fluxes in Glacial Arctic Fjords (BIODAFF) is a project to study the effects of seasonal fluctuations in salinity, turbidity and sedimentation rates in the glacial fjords on Svalvard on how the diversity of ice flora and fauna is structured by stress gradients and the abiotic factors of the ice habitat.

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

Also studied will be the zonation of macrobenthic organisms on hard bottom substrates and how this zonation changes longitudinally in the fjord against the general stress gradients. The work will involve several diving transects from inner to outer fjord. This project began in 1996 and is being performed by the Norwegian Polar Institute under their leadership.

Citation

Steve Baum (Lead Author);C Michael Hogan (Topic Editor) "Biodiversity and Fluxes in Glacial Arctic Fjords (BIODAFF)". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth March 30, 2010; Last revised Date November 28, 2011; Retrieved May 24, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biodiversity_and_Fluxes_in_Glacial_Arctic_Fjords_(BIODAFF)?topic=49480>