Characterizing the physiological stress response of Antarctic coastal benthos in a changing polar environment

• Main Author: Abele, Doris
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Iceberg*; IPY
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/14470/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.24772

Approximately 25 million years ago, the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current closed off Antarctica and drastically limited exchange of species with the South American continent (Clarke et al. Trends Ecol Evol 20,1-3, 2005). To date, the Antarctic marine fauna is highly endemic and physiologica...