Endobenthic communities of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea shelf ...

• Main Author: Weith, Friederike
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Rostock 2023
• Subjects: 570 Life science; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00004511; https://rosdok.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/rosdok_disshab_0000003103

The unique benthic biodiversity in the Southern Ocean is under increasing pressure as changes in sea-ice cover in the Southern Ocean have a major impact on sensitive benthic organisms which rely on food input from the surface to the seafloor. Still we know little about the Antarctic endobenthic diversity (meio- and macrofauna organisms). This thesis aims to improve the understanding of the Antarctic endobenthic biodiversity by linking taxonomic and functional aspects on species and community level with environmental drivers. ...