Antarctic patterns of shallow subtidal habitat and inhabitants in Wilke’s Land

• Main Authors: E Johnston, S Connell, Andrew Irving, A Pile, B Gillanders
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Ecosystem Function; Landscape Ecology; Environmental Monitoring; Antarctica; Macroalgae; Benthic community; Antarctic; Austral; Coast Island; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10018/1034541

Studies of east Antarctic marine assemblageson hard substrata are rare. In relation to sea-ice breakout, we assessed benthic patterns of habitat and inhabitants between islands and bays at each of two depths (6 and 12 m) across the Windmill Islands coast. Island sites experience sea-ice breakout in...