Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic
The high proportion of brooding (50 to 70% depending on phyla) compared with broadcaster species among invertebrates living along the coast of the Southern ocean has been traditionally interpreted as an adaptation to local environmental conditions. Currently, however, species with a planktotrophic d...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.3238215 2023-05-15T13:55:26+02:00 Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic Féral, Jean-Pierre Poulin, Elie 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3238215 https://zenodo.org/record/3238215 fr fre Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3238214 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Text Presentation article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3238215 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3238214 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The high proportion of brooding (50 to 70% depending on phyla) compared with broadcaster species among invertebrates living along the coast of the Southern ocean has been traditionally interpreted as an adaptation to local environmental conditions. Currently, however, species with a planktotrophic developmental mode are ecologically dominant along coastal areas, in terms of abundance of individuals. The fact that Kerguelen island is inhabited by such species and that the French base Port-aux-Français, with its equipped marine laboratory, made it possible to address questions as to why are there so many brooders in the coastal waters of the Southern ocean and if the apparent ecological success of broadcasters related to their developmental mode. We argue that the present shallow antarctic benthic invertebrate fauna is the result of two processes acting at different temporal scales. First, the high proportion of brooding species compared with coastal communities elsewhere corresponds to species-level selection occurring over geological and evolutionary times which explains the very high biodiversity observed in coastal waters. Second, the ecological dominance of broadcasters is the result of processes operating at ecological timescales that are associated with the advantage of having pelagic larvae under highly disturbed conditions (e.g., ice scouring). Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Kerguelen Islands Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Kerguelen Kerguelen Island ENVELOPE(69.500,69.500,-49.250,-49.250) Kerguelen Islands Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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The high proportion of brooding (50 to 70% depending on phyla) compared with broadcaster species among invertebrates living along the coast of the Southern ocean has been traditionally interpreted as an adaptation to local environmental conditions. Currently, however, species with a planktotrophic developmental mode are ecologically dominant along coastal areas, in terms of abundance of individuals. The fact that Kerguelen island is inhabited by such species and that the French base Port-aux-Français, with its equipped marine laboratory, made it possible to address questions as to why are there so many brooders in the coastal waters of the Southern ocean and if the apparent ecological success of broadcasters related to their developmental mode. We argue that the present shallow antarctic benthic invertebrate fauna is the result of two processes acting at different temporal scales. First, the high proportion of brooding species compared with coastal communities elsewhere corresponds to species-level selection occurring over geological and evolutionary times which explains the very high biodiversity observed in coastal waters. Second, the ecological dominance of broadcasters is the result of processes operating at ecological timescales that are associated with the advantage of having pelagic larvae under highly disturbed conditions (e.g., ice scouring). |
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Féral, Jean-Pierre Poulin, Elie Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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Kerguelen Islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the Antarctic |
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kerguelen islands: a living laboratory to understand the benthic biodiversity of the antarctic |
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