Updated 2001-04-10
The objectives of the project are to assess:
1) the present biodiversity of benthos in Arctic coastal ecosystems (White Sea, southern Barents Sea, Pechora Sea), and indicators for changes caused by disturbances;
2) the adaptations to the Arctic climate for some benthic key-species, the additional influence of disturbance and the sensitivity of the key-species to additional stress from disturbances;
3) the geochemical background of the regions
Research activities:
Annual missions by ship for sampling water, sediments and macrobenthos. Biodiversity analysis of macrobenthos in sediments in laboratories in Murmansk (MMBI) and Tromsø (Akvaplan-Niva), ecophysiological analyses in laboratories of St. Petersburg (ZISP), Yerseke (NIOO-CEMO) and Pisa (UN), analyses of pollutants in laboratories in Moscow (MSU), Nantes(UN) and Pisa (UP), geochemical analyses of water and sediment in laboratories of Moscow (MSU) and Barcelona (UB). Training of 3 PhD students
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Completed
- Project time span
- 1995 - 1998
- Data collection
- not specified
- Data processing
- not specified
- Data reporting
- not specified
Geography
- Regions studied
- Heavy metals
- Heavy metals
- Heavy metals
- Other areas
- White sea, south-eastern Barents Sea
- Stations or areas where observations are made
White Sea (many), see reports
South-east Barents Sea (many)
Pechora Sea (many)
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- no
- If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?
- Data storage: Computer files, reports, papers
Data will be available to other projects and/or international programmes from: project contact
- References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
- Hummel, H., 1994. COMARNOR expedition-1994 on biodiversity and adaptation strategies of Arctic coastal marine benthos (a UNESCO-COMAR "Training-through-Research initiative in the White Sea). MARINF/97, Annex 6, pp. 62-64. (appeared also in Russian)
Hummel, H., 1995. New biodiversity initiative for the White Sea. UNESCO IMS Newsletter 73/74: 14.
Sommer, A., Hummel, H. & H.O. P”rtner, 1996. Adaptation of Arenicola marina to changing temperatures: a comparison of boreal and subpolar populations. Verh. dt. Zool. Ges. 89: 18
Gantsevich, M.M., K.V. Sokolov & H. Hummel, 1996. Comparative characteristic of some ecophysiological parameters of the bivalve molluscs Macoma balthica L. 1758 and Mytilus edulis L. 1758 from the Kandalaksha bay of the White Sea. In: A.V. Sjerbakov & E.D. Krasnova (eds.).
Scientific conference of the White Sea Biological Station MSU in memory of Nikolaj Andrevits Pjertsov (book of abstracts). BBS MSU, Moscow, pp. 14-15 (in Russian).
Hummel, H., A. Sommer, R.H. Bogaards and H.O P”rtner, 1997. Variation in genetic traits of the lugworm Arenicola marina: temperature related expression of mitochondrial allozymes?. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 159: 189-195.
Hummel, H, R. Bogaards, T. Bek, L. Polishchuk, C. Amiard-Triquet, G. Bachelet, M. Desprez, P. Strelkov, A. Sukhotin, A. Naumov, S. Dahle, S. Denisenko, M. Gantsevich, K. Sokolov and L. de Wolf, 1997. Sensitivity to stress in the bivalve Macoma balthica from the most northern (Arctic) to
the most southern (French) populations: low sensitivity in Arctic populations because of genetic adaptations? Hydrobiologia 355: 127-138.
Naumov, A.D., H. Hummel, A.A. Sukhotin & J.S. Ryland (eds.), 1997. Interactions and adaptation strategies of marine organisms. Developments in Hydrobiologia 121. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 190 pp.
Hummel, H., 1997. Preface. In: A.D. Naumov, A.D., H. Hummel, A.A. Sukhotin & J.S. Ryland (eds.). Interactions and adaptation strategies of marine organisms. Developments in Hydrobiologia 121. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. vii.
Colucci, F., H. Hummel, R.H. Bogaards and P. Strelkov, 1997. Genetic and biochemical traits of the bivalve Mytilus in west and north-east europe. NIOO-Report 1997-4, Yerseke, ISSN 1381-6519, 24 pp.
Naumov, A.D., A. Calafat-Frau, H. Hummel, C. Larroux, R. Palerud & F. Regoli, 1997. Benthic investigations of the White Sea biological station in the White and Barents Seas within the framework of the international project "Biodiversity and adaptation strategies of Arctic coastal marine benthos". In: V.Y. Berger & A.D. Naumov (eds.). Ecological investigations of the White Sea organisms (book of abstracts). Zoological Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg, pp. 58-59.
Hummel, H, R. Bogaards, T. Bek, L. Polishchuk, K. Sokolov, C. Amiard-Triquet, G. Bachelet, M. Desprez, A. Naumov, P. Strelkov, S. Dahle, S. Denisenko, M. Gantsevich and L. de Wolf, 1998. Growth in the bivalve Macoma balthica from its northern to its southern distribution limit: a discontinuity in North-Europe because of genetic adaptations in Arctic populations? Comp. Biochem. Physiol. (accepted).
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
Not specified
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- Yes
- Other institutes involved in the project
- Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Vladimirskaja 17, 183023 Murmansk, AN SSSR
- Zoological Institute, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 St.-Petersburg, Russia
- Moscow State University, Biology Faculty, Vorobiovy Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia
- Universitat de Barcelona, Dep. de Geologia Dinamica, Geofisica Paleontologia Zona Universitaria de Pedralbes, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Ecotoxicologie des Milieux Aquatiques, Universit de Nantes, 1 Rue Gaston Veil, 44035 Nantes Cedex 01, France
- Akvaplan-Niva, Strandtorget 2B,P.O. Box 735, 9001 Tromsø, Norway
- Dip. Biomedicina Sperimentale, Universita di Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, 56100 Pisa, Italy
- Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?
EC-INTAS (project 94-391)