FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Arctic mid-winter phytoplankton growth revealed by autonomous profilers BT AF Randelhoff, Achim Lacour, Léo Marec, Claudie Leymarie, Edouard Lagunas, José Xing, Xiaogang Darnis, Gérald Penkerc’h, Christophe Sampei, Makoto Fortier, Louis D’Ortenzio, Fabrizio Claustre, Hervé Babin, Marcel AS 1:1,2,3;2:1,2,3;3:1,2,4;4:5;5:1,3;6:6;7:1,2,3;8:5;9:7;10:1,2,3;11:5;12:5;13:1,2,3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:; C1 Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Université Laval ,QC, Canada CNRS , France Département de biologie, Université Laval and Québec-Océan, QC, Canada. Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, 29280 Plouzané, France. Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China. Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate 041-8611, Japan. C2 UNIV LAVAL, CANADA CNRS, FRANCE UNIV LAVAL, CANADA UBO, FRANCE UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE SOA, CHINA UNIV HOKKAIDO, JAPAN IN DOAJ IF 14.136 TC 31 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00652/76416/77468.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00652/76416/77469.pdf LA English DT Article AB It is widely believed that during winter and spring, Arctic marine phytoplankton cannot grow until sea ice and snow cover start melting and transmit sufficient irradiance, but there is little observational evidence for that paradigm. To explore the life of phytoplankton during and after the polar night, we used robotic ice-avoiding profiling floats to measure ocean optics and phytoplankton characteristics continuously through two annual cycles in Baffin Bay, an Arctic sea that is covered by ice for 7 months a year. We demonstrate that net phytoplankton growth occurred even under 100% ice cover as early as February and that it resulted at least partly from photosynthesis. This highlights the adaptation of Arctic phytoplankton to extreme low-light conditions, which may be key to their survival before seeding the spring bloom. PY 2020 PD SEP SO Science Advances SN 2375-2548 PU American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) VL 6 IS 39 UT 000575531700036 DI 10.1126/sciadv.abc2678 ID 76416 ER EF