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Thematic Cluster: The Arctic in Rapid Transition - Marine Ecosystems

Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs

Monika KędraInstitute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81-712Sopot, Poland;Chesapeake Biological LaboratoryUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 38, Solomons, MD20688, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Charlotte MoritzInstitut des Sciences de la MerUniversité du Québec à Rimouski, 310 allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, Quebec G5L 3A1, Canada;Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement 3278, National Center for Scientific Research, École Pratique des Hautes Études, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, BP1013, 98729 Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia
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Emily S. ChoyDepartment of Biological SciencesUniversity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ManitobaR3T 2N2, Canada
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Carmen DavidAlfred Wegener InstituteAm Handelshafen 12, DE-27570Bremerhaven, Germany
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Renate DegenAlfred Wegener InstituteAm Handelshafen 12, DE-27570Bremerhaven, Germany
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Steven DuerksenDepartment of BiologyDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova ScotiaB3H 4R2, Canada
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Ingrid EllingsenSINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture Brattørkaia17C, NO-7010Trondheim, Norway
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Barbara GórskaInstitute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81-712Sopot, Poland
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Jacqueline M. GrebmeierChesapeake Biological LaboratoryUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 38, Solomons, MD20688, USA
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Dubrava KirievskayaResearch Center Novgorod State University, Bolshaya St. Petersburgskaya ul., 41, Veliky Novgorod, 173003, Russia
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Dick van OevelenRoyal Netherlands Institute for Sea ResearchYerseke Ecosystem Studies, P.O. Box 140, NL-4400AC Yerseke, The Netherlands
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Kasia PiwoszNational Marine Fisheries Research InstituteDepartment of Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecology, ul. Kołłątaja 1, PL-81-332Gdynia, Poland
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Annette SamuelsenNansen Environmental and Remote Sensing CenterHjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Thormoelensgate 47, NO-5006, Bergen, Norway
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Jan Marcin WęsławskiInstitute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81-712Sopot, Poland
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Article: 23775 | Published online: 20 May 2015

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