Environmental drivers of benthic fish distribution in and around Barrow Canyon in the northeastern Chukchi Sea and western Beaufort Sea
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Environmental drivers of benthic fish distribution in and around Barrow Canyon in the northeastern Chukchi Sea and western Beaufort Sea

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  • Journal Title:
    Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
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    We investigate the relationships between Arctic fish and their environment with the goal of illustrating mechanisms of climate change impacts. A multidisciplinary research survey was conducted to characterize fish distribution and oceanographic processes in and around Barrow Canyon in the northeastern Chukchi Sea in summer 2013. Benthic fish were sampled with standard bottom trawl survey methods. Oceanographic data were collected at each trawl station. The density of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida), the most abundant species, was related to bottom depth, salinity and temperature. Arctic cod were more abundant in deep, cold and highly saline water in Barrow Canyon, which was likely advected from the Chukchi Shelf or from the Arctic Basin. We hypothesize that Arctic cod occupied Barrow Canyon to take advantage of energy-rich copepods transported in these water masses. Arctic cod were similarly more abundant in deep, cold and high salinity water in the Beaufort Sea, documented by a comparable multidisciplinary survey conducted in 2008. These linkages between oceanographic variables and benthic fish distribution and abundance suggest that advection, sea-ice dynamics and pelagic-benthic coupling are important for the ecology of benthic Arctic fishes. These processes have been and will likely continue to be impacted by climate change. Our results improve the understanding of the mechanistic linkages between climate change and benthic Arctic fish ecology.
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    Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 152, 170-181
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    0967-0645
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