Mollusks from Southern South America, the Scotia Arc and the Antarctic Peninsula; Assessing Connectivity Among these Regions

• Main Author: Naretto Atlagic, Javier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Distribution patterns; marine biodiversity; zonation of species; marine invertebrate biogeography; Scotia Arc; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean biodiversity; South American biodiversity; Drake Passage; species connectivity; larval transport; drifting communities; benthic marine invertebrates; marine species distributions; benthic mollusk species; presence absence studies; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Stepping Stones; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/85f018w3

The Southern Ocean has been intensively studied in recent decades with respect to the biogeography of marine invertebrates. Biological limitations, the geological history of Antarctica and South America, and oceanographic features of the Drake Passage potentially limit species connectivity between S...