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Cooperation on Arctic bivalves

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The Arctic has recently become a centre of attention with increasing human activities and warming of the climate affecting the marine ecosystem. As Arctic sea ice extent has decreased due to warming temperatures, shipping has increased along the Siberian shelf, and boreal species have extended their distributions further north. At the same time, the oil and gas industry is constantly pushing the boundaries of resource exploration northward within the Arctic shelf seas, enhancing the risk of pollution. The refore, there is a need to study the basic biology of Arctic key species and their sensitivities to combined human and environmental pressures through a holistic approach. Bivalves are playing an important role in the ecosystems and have been used as rel iable indicators for changes in the ocean climate. Today, and in the Arctic in particular, bivalves play a crucial role in the "pelagic-benthic" coupling and are studied in relation to their function and response to climate related impacts. Bivalves also play a central in monitoring of pollutants due to their high capacity for pollutant bioaccumulation. In this context, several research projects have been initiated on Svalbard aiming at key Arctic bivalves and their biology and responses to environmental and anthropogenic disturbances (. On-going projects include among others the Norwegian (COOPENOR, Talking Clams), French (ECOTAB), and German (Dynamics of benthic bivalve communities in polar environments) initiatives which we will bring together in the B IVARC workshop for an enhanced cooperation and integration of research on Arctic bivalves.

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