Is the southern crab Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius, 1775) the next invader of Antarctica?

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: López‐Farrán, Zambra, Guillaumot, Charlène, Vargas‐Chacoff, Luis, Paschke, Kurt, Dulière, Valérie, Danis, Bruno, Poulin, Elie, Saucède, Thomas, Waters, Jonathan, Gérard, Karin
• Other Authors: Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular (LEM), Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Research Center Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems (Fondap-IDEAL), Universidad Austral de Chile, Laboratorio de Ecología de Macroalgas Antárticas y Sub antárticas (LEMAS), Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Laboratoire de Biologie Marine (LBM), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratorio de Fisiología de Peces, Universidad Austral de Chile- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Instituto de Acuicultura, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Otago Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande, Centro de Investigación Gaia-Antártica, FONDECYT Regular 1161358; INAChDG 14-17;Chilean national doctoralscholarship CONICYT 21151192;Fondap-IDEAL15150003; PIA CONICYTACT172065; FONDECYT 1160877; ‘Fondspour la Formation à la Recherche dansl’Industrie et l’Agriculture’ (FRIA); ‘BourseFondation de la Mer’; Contribution Nº23to the ‘Refugia and Ecosystem Tolerancein the Southern Ocean’ project (RECTO;BR/154/A1/RECTO) funded by theBelgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO);IPEV program Nº1044 Proteker;Contribution Nº48 to the vERSO project(BELSPO, contract n°BR/132/A1/vERSO).
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: climate change; establishment; niche modelling; non-native species; reptant crab; Southern Ocean; survival; thermotolerance; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Deception Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03288942; https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15674

18 pages International audience The potential for biological colonization of Antarctic shores is an increasingly important topic in the context of anthropogenic warming. Successful Antarctic invasions to date have been recorded exclusively from terrestrial habitats. While non-native marine species s...