Glacial melt disturbance shifts community metabolism of an Antarctic seafloor ecosystem from net autotrophy to heterotrophy

• Published in: Communications Biology
• Main Authors: Braeckman, Ulrike, Pasotti, Francesca, Hoffmann, Ralf, Vázquez, Susana Claudia, Wulff, Angela, Schloss, Irene Ruth, Falk, Ulrike, Deregibus, Dolores, Lefaible, Nene, Torstensson, Anders, Al Handal, Adil, Wenzhöfer, Frank, Vanreusel, Ann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; POTTER COVE; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Potter Cove; Argentino; Argentina; Suecia; Dolores; Antarc*; Antarctica; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/144007

Climate change-induced glacial melt affects benthic ecosystems along the West Antarctic Peninsula, but current understanding of the effects on benthic primary production and respiration is limited. Here we demonstrate with a series of in situ community metabolism measurements that climate-related gl...