Different feeding strategies in Antarctic scavenging amphipods and their implications for colonisation success in times of retreating glaciers

• Published in: Frontiers in Zoology
• Main Authors: Meike Anna Seefeldt, Gabriela Laura Campana, Dolores Deregibus, María Liliana Quartino, Doris Abele, Ralph Tollrian, Christoph Held
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2017
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; King George Island/ Isla 25 de Mayo; Potter Cove; Succession; Carrion-feeding; Food web; Zoology; QL1-991; 25 de Mayo; Antarctic; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; isla 25 de Mayo; King George Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Isla 25 de Mayo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0248-3; https://doaj.org/article/2523b001a61e47ffb258c151366cb552

Abstract Background Scavenger guilds are composed of a variety of species, co-existing in the same habitat and sharing the same niche in the food web. Niche partitioning among them can manifest in different feeding strategies, e.g. during carcass feeding. In the bentho-pelagic realm of the Southern...