Evolution and diversity of the benthic fauna of the Southern Ocean continental shelf

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Clarke, Andrew, Aronson, Richard B., Alistair Crame, J., Gili, Josep Maria, Blake, Daniel B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2004
• Subjects: Climatic cooling; Extinction; Glaciations; Milankovitch; Predation; Speciation; Antarctic; Dauphin Island; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; British Antarctic Survey; Ice cap; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/134894; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102004002329

10 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables.-- This is contribution No. 352 of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab The modern benthic fauna of the Antarctic continental shelf is characterized by the lack of active, skeleton-breaking (durophagous) predators such as crabs, lobsters and many fish, and the dominance in many a...