The Nares Strait is a natural sea-ice gradient to explore the role of functional diversity on benthic ecosystem functioning.

Thibaud Combaz, Takuvik International Research Laboratory, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, Philippe Archambault, Takuvik International Research Laboratory, CNRS - Université Laval- Sorbonne Université, Québec, QC, Canada, Bodil Bluhm, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway and Ursula Witte, University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom