Current Assessment of Water Quality and Biota Characteristics of the Pelagic Ecosystem of the Atlantic Sector of Antarctica: The Multidisciplinary Studies by the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas
Journal: Water
Year: 2022

Comprehensive studies of the ecosystem of the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic were carried out in the period between 2020 and 2022, during the 79th and 87th sea expeditions on the R/V “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh”. Concentrations of soluble forms of 15 trace elements, except Mo, in surface waters of the Southern Ocean were matched the lower limit of their background concentrations in oceanic waters. A high spatial variability of chlorophyll a—an indicator of phytoplankton biomass, which is the ma