Challenging the cold: Crabs reconquer the antarctic

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Thatje, Sven, Anger, Klaus, Calcagno, Javier Ángel, Lovrich, Gustavo Alejandro, Pörtner, Hans Otto, Arntz, Wolf E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America
• Subjects: ANTARCTIC; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRABS; EVOLUTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Argentina; Sven; Klaus; Gustavo; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/150974

Abstract. Recent records of lithodid crabs in deeper waters off the Antarctic continentalslope raised the question of the return of crabs to Antarctic waters, following their extinctionin the lower Miocene ;15 million years ago. Antarctic cooling may be responsible for theimpoverishment of the marin...