Evidence of strong small‐scale population structure in the Antarctic freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei in lakes on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Maturana, Claudia S., Segovia, Nicolás I., González‐Wevar, Claudio A., Díaz, Angie, Rosenfeld, Sebastián, Poulin, Elie, Jackson, Jennifer A., Convey, Peter
• Other Authors: British Antarctic Survey, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Boeckella; Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11435; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Flno.11435; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.11435; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/lno.11435; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.11435

Abstract Environmental conditions were particularly severe during the Last Glacial Maximum, altering the distribution of the Southern Hemisphere biota, particularly at higher latitudes. The copepod Boeckella poppei is the only macroscopic continental invertebrate species known to be distributed toda...