Influence of oceanographic variability on near‐shore microbial communities of the sub‐Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Venkatachalam, Siddarthan, Matcher, Gwynneth F., Lamont, Tarron, van den Berg, Marcel, Ansorge, Isabelle J., Dorrington, Rosemary A.
• Other Authors: South African National Antarctic Programme, South African National Research Foundation, Rhodes University Sandisa Imbewu Programme, DST/NRF SARChI Post-Doctoral Fellowship, South African Department of Environmental Affairs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11035; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Flno.11035; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.11035

Abstract The Prince Edward Islands (PEIs) lie within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), in a transition zone bordered by the sub‐Antarctic Front (SAF) to the north and the Antarctic Polar Front (APF) in the south. A climate‐driven southward shift of the ACC and its frontal systems, the SAF and...