Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ...
One-third of the Antarctic continental shelf is covered by ice shelves, floating extensions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Marine life beneath and bordering ice shelves is rarely investigated, yet likely to be highly impacted by climate change. As ice shelves retreat, marine environments transition int...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.92184 2024-02-04T09:56:04+01:00 Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... Frinault, AV Christie, FDW Fawcett, SE Flynn, RF Hutchinson, KA Montres Strevens, CMJ Taylor, ML Woodall, LC Barnes, DKA 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.92184 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/344761 en eng MDPI open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Antarctica benthic assemblages biodiversity climate change coastal polynya continental shelf ice shelf Larsen Ice Shelf Southern Ocean Weddell Sea Article ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle article-journal 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.92184 2024-01-05T09:52:16Z One-third of the Antarctic continental shelf is covered by ice shelves, floating extensions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Marine life beneath and bordering ice shelves is rarely investigated, yet likely to be highly impacted by climate change. As ice shelves retreat, marine environments transition into new open-water spaces, with potential for primary production and consequent foodfall to the seafloor. How Antarctic seabed assemblages (benthos) develop in such emerging spaces is influenced by neighboring and oceanographically-connected communities; thus, closing knowledgegaps of benthic biodiversity near ice shelves underpins understanding of future ecosystem change. This study examined seafloor assemblages, and environmental differences, in a region that has experienced ice-shelf retreat, in a polynya adjacent to a marine margin at the forefront of climate change: the ice-shelf front. The study area, located in the Weddell Sea, is seldom accessible, and lies within a proposed international marine protected ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Larsen Ice Shelf Southern Ocean Weddell Sea DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(-62.500,-62.500,-67.500,-67.500) Southern Ocean The Antarctic Weddell Weddell Sea |
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Antarctica benthic assemblages biodiversity climate change coastal polynya continental shelf ice shelf Larsen Ice Shelf Southern Ocean Weddell Sea Frinault, AV Christie, FDW Fawcett, SE Flynn, RF Hutchinson, KA Montres Strevens, CMJ Taylor, ML Woodall, LC Barnes, DKA Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... |
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One-third of the Antarctic continental shelf is covered by ice shelves, floating extensions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Marine life beneath and bordering ice shelves is rarely investigated, yet likely to be highly impacted by climate change. As ice shelves retreat, marine environments transition into new open-water spaces, with potential for primary production and consequent foodfall to the seafloor. How Antarctic seabed assemblages (benthos) develop in such emerging spaces is influenced by neighboring and oceanographically-connected communities; thus, closing knowledgegaps of benthic biodiversity near ice shelves underpins understanding of future ecosystem change. This study examined seafloor assemblages, and environmental differences, in a region that has experienced ice-shelf retreat, in a polynya adjacent to a marine margin at the forefront of climate change: the ice-shelf front. The study area, located in the Weddell Sea, is seldom accessible, and lies within a proposed international marine protected ... |
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Frinault, AV Christie, FDW Fawcett, SE Flynn, RF Hutchinson, KA Montres Strevens, CMJ Taylor, ML Woodall, LC Barnes, DKA |
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Frinault, AV Christie, FDW Fawcett, SE Flynn, RF Hutchinson, KA Montres Strevens, CMJ Taylor, ML Woodall, LC Barnes, DKA |
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Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... |
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Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... |
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Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... |
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Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea ... |
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