Acknowledgements
This study was conducted in the frame of the project FACE-IT (The Future
of Arctic Coastal Ecosystems – Identifying Transitions in Fjord Systems
and Adjacent Coastal Areas). FACE-IT has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
grant agreement No 869154.
We thank Claudia Daniel and Nele Schimpf for assistance in the field and
processing of macroalgal samples. Lena Blum and Verena Merk from the AWI
dive team are gratefully acknowledged for scuba diving and sampling of
algal material along the depth transect. We thank Juliane Müller for
performing the biochemical investigations at University Rostock.
We are grateful to the AWIPEV Arctic Research Base and the Kings Bay
Marine Laboratory personnel for the support of our research in
Ny-Ålesund. SF is thankful to the Svalbard Science Forum for receiving
the Arctic field grant.