Shifts in Antarctic megabenthic structure after ice-shelf disintegration in the Larsen area east of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Gutt, Julian, Cape, Mattias, Dimmler, Werner, Fillinger, Laura, Isla, Enrique, Lieb, Verena, Lundälv, Tomas, Pulcher, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2013
• Subjects: Population growth; Ophiuroids; Ascidians; Population collapse; Climate change; Current regime; Interannual sea-ice dynamics; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Stripe; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Polar Biology; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/96341; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-013-1315-7

12 pages, 6 figures The aim of this study was to contribute to a general understanding of the response of the Antarctic macrobenthos to environmental variability and climate-induced changes. The change in population size of selected macrobenthic organisms was investigated in the Larsen A area east o...