Environmental control on the structure of echinoid assemblages in the Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctica)

• Main Authors: Moya-Ruiz, Francisca, Saucède, Thomas, Manjón-Cabeza, María Eugenia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Medio Marino; Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga; Abiotic factors; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Benthos; Diversity; Echinodermata; Echinoidea; Peter I Island; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; antarcticus; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/12054; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320519

The Bellingshausen Sea is one of the most remote and least surveyed seas of the Southern Ocean, so that little was known about benthic communities and those factors that determine community structuring until recently. The present work aims at characterizing the structure and spatial distribution of...