2001: Global climate change and the origin of modern benthic communities in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Richard B. Aronson, Daniel B. Blake
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Seymour; Seymour Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.554.7234; http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/1/27.full.pdf

SYNOPSIS. Marine benthic communities living in shallow-water habitats (,100 m depth) in Antarctica possess characteristics reminiscent of Paleozoic marine com-munities and modern deep-sea communities. The absence of crabs and sharks, the limited diversity of teleosts and skates, the dominance of slo...