When shape matters: Strategies of different Antarctic ascidians morphotypes to deal with sedimentation

• Published in: Marine Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Torre, Luciana, Abele, Doris, Lagger, Cristian Fabian, Momo, Fernando, Sahade, Ricardo Jose
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Ascidia Challengeri; Cnemidocarpa Verrucosa; Molgula Pedunculata; Lactate; Glycogen; Hypoxia; Sedimentation; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Torre; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8012

Climate change leads to increased melting of tidewater glaciers in the Western Antarctic Peninsula region and sediment bearing glacial melt waters negatively affects filter feeding species as solitary ascidians. In previous work the erect-forms Molgula pedunculata and Cnemidocarpa verrucosa (Order S...