General ecology of coastal fish from the South Shetland Island and west Antarctic Peninsula areas

• Main Authors: Barrera Oro, Esteban, Casaux, Ricardo Jorge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar und Meeresforschung
• Subjects: Antarctic fish; ecology; sea; coastal fish; Shetland Island; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Argentino; Argentina; Ricardo; Eastman; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/104623

There is a lower diversity of Antarctic fish species on the continental shelves (139 spp) compared with other cold-water seas (> 350 spp in the North Atlantic). However, although the diversity of the notothenioids is limited compared with the large size of the ecosystem, there is no other fish gr...