Why is the South Orkney Island shelf (the world's first high seas marine protected area) a carbon immobilization hotspot?

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Barnes, David K. A., Ireland, Louise, Hogg, Oliver T., Morley, Simon, Enderlein, Peter, Sands, Chester J.
• Other Authors: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Pew Charitable Trusts
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Soi; South Orkney Islands; Southern Ocean; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13157; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgcb.13157; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.13157

Abstract The Southern Ocean archipelago, the South Orkney Islands ( SOI ), became the world's first entirely high seas marine protected area ( MPA ) in 2010. The SOI continental shelf (~44 000 km 2 ), was less than half covered by grounded ice sheet during glaciations, is biologically rich and...