Alpine glacier algal bloom during a record melt year
Jasmin L. Millar,
Emily L. M. Broadwell,
Madeleine Lewis
et al.
Abstract:Glacier algal blooms dominate the surfaces of glaciers and ice sheets during summer melt seasons, with larger blooms anticipated in years that experience the greatest melt. Here, we characterize the glacier algal bloom proliferating on Morteratsch glacier, Switzerland, during the record 2022 melt season, when the Swiss Alps lost three times more ice than the decadal average. Glacier algal cellular abundance (cells ml−1), biovolume (μm3 cell−1), photophysiology (Fv/Fm, rETRmax), and stoichiometry (C:N ratios) w… Show more
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