Spatial patterns of continental shelf faunal community structure along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Alan M Friedlander, Whitney Goodell, Pelayo Salinas-de-León, Enric Ballesteros, Eric Berkenpas, Andrea P Capurro, César A Cárdenas, Mathias Hüne, Cristian Lagger, Mauricio F Landaeta, Alex Muñoz, Mercedes Santos, Alan Turchik, Rodolfo Werner, Enric Sala
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; 25 de Mayo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239895; https://doaj.org/article/26f8bee6ffcd4bc0a85348ed1e116cfa

Knowledge of continental shelf faunal biodiversity of Antarctica is patchy and as such, the ecology of this unique ecosystem is not fully understood. To this end, we deployed baited cameras at 20 locations along ~ 500 km of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) at depths from 90 to 797 m. We identif...