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The Book, and Ecology of Sea Ice

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Arctic Sea Ice Ecology

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This chapter describes the structure of the book and the diverse significance and importance of sea ice. The first section explains how and why the book is structured following the seasonal events governing the abiotic and biotic parameters in sea ice (1.1). The second section places sea ice into a physical and geopolitical perspective with the new and developing international borders in the Arctic Ocean (1.2). Sea ice ecosystems are then compared to other ecosystems (1.3), followed by a section describing the important and global ecological features of sea ice (1.4).

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  1. Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen

  2. Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Denmark

    Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard

  3. Aquatic Biology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Brian Keith Sorrell

  4. Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Rolf Gradinger

  5. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Klaus Martin Meiners

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Lund-Hansen, L.C., Søgaard, D.H., Sorrell, B.K., Gradinger, R., Meiners, K.M. (2020). The Book, and Ecology of Sea Ice. In: Arctic Sea Ice Ecology. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37472-3_1

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