Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic
Recent records of lithodid crabs in deeper waters off the Antarctic continental slope raised the question of the return of crabs to Antarctic waters, following their extinction in the lower Miocene about 15 million years ago. Antarctic cooling may be responsible for the impoverishment of the marine...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:10689 2023-09-05T13:13:43+02:00 Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic Thatje, S. Anger, Klaus Calcagno, J. A. Lovrich, G. A. Pörtner, Hans-Otto Arntz, Wolf 2005 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/1/Tha2004i.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/1/Tha2004i.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158.d001 Thatje, S. , Anger, K. , Calcagno, J. A. , Lovrich, G. A. , Pörtner, H. O. orcid:0000-0001-6535-6575 and Arntz, W. (2005) Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic , Ecology:, 86 (3), pp. 619-625 . hdl:10013/epic.21158 EPIC3Ecology:, 86(3), pp. 619-625 Article isiRev 2005 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:48:50Z Recent records of lithodid crabs in deeper waters off the Antarctic continental slope raised the question of the return of crabs to Antarctic waters, following their extinction in the lower Miocene about 15 million years ago. Antarctic cooling may be responsible for the impoverishment of the marine high Antarctic decapod fauna, presently comprising five shrimp species only. Effects of Polar conditions on marine life, including lowered metabolic rates and short seasonal food availability, were discussed as main evolutionary driving forces shaping Antarctic diversity. In particular planktotrophic larval stages should be vulnerable to the mismatch of prolonged development and short periods of food availability, selecting against complex life cycles. We hypothesise that larval lecithotrophy and cold-tolerance, as recently observed in Subantarctic lithodids, represent, together with other adaptations in the adults, key features among the life-history adaptations of lithodids, potentially enabling them to conquer polar ecosystems. The return of benthic top predators to high Antarctic waters under conditions of climate change would considerably alter the benthic communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Recent records of lithodid crabs in deeper waters off the Antarctic continental slope raised the question of the return of crabs to Antarctic waters, following their extinction in the lower Miocene about 15 million years ago. Antarctic cooling may be responsible for the impoverishment of the marine high Antarctic decapod fauna, presently comprising five shrimp species only. Effects of Polar conditions on marine life, including lowered metabolic rates and short seasonal food availability, were discussed as main evolutionary driving forces shaping Antarctic diversity. In particular planktotrophic larval stages should be vulnerable to the mismatch of prolonged development and short periods of food availability, selecting against complex life cycles. We hypothesise that larval lecithotrophy and cold-tolerance, as recently observed in Subantarctic lithodids, represent, together with other adaptations in the adults, key features among the life-history adaptations of lithodids, potentially enabling them to conquer polar ecosystems. The return of benthic top predators to high Antarctic waters under conditions of climate change would considerably alter the benthic communities. |
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Thatje, S. Anger, Klaus Calcagno, J. A. Lovrich, G. A. Pörtner, Hans-Otto Arntz, Wolf Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic |
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Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/1/Tha2004i.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158.d001 |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/10689/1/Tha2004i.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21158.d001 Thatje, S. , Anger, K. , Calcagno, J. A. , Lovrich, G. A. , Pörtner, H. O. orcid:0000-0001-6535-6575 and Arntz, W. (2005) Challenging the cold: crabs reconquer the Antarctic , Ecology:, 86 (3), pp. 619-625 . hdl:10013/epic.21158 |
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