The importance of local settings: within-year variability in seawater temperature at South Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: César A. Cárdenas, Marcelo González-Aravena, Pamela A. Santibañez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Antarctica; Climate change; WAP; Benthic organisms; Increased seawater temperature; Environmental variability; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Doumer; Doumer Island; Palmer Archipelago; South Bay; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4289; https://doaj.org/article/606d3591a40c4adf968ee374298449af

The Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has undergone significant changes in air and seawater temperatures during the last 50 years. Although highly stenotherm Antarctic organisms are expected to be severely affected by the increase of seawater temperature, high-resolution datasets of seawater tempera...