Filter-feeding isopods (Antarcturus cf spinacoronatus) conquer a major new habitat on the underside of the Antarctic shelf ice

• Main Authors: Held, Christoph, Nachtsheim, Dominik, Owsianowski, Nils, Richter, Claudio, Steinmetz, Richard, Bornemann, Horst
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; Weddell; Riiser-Larsen; Larsen Ice Shelf; Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45187/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51361

The colonization of a new habitat affords an important advantage to the successful pioneer species because competitors, predators and parasites are likely to be out of step. Here, we report the first retrieval and molecular characterization of a cryo-benthic community of isopod crustaceans that live...