Consistent Richness-Biomass Relationship across Environmental Gradients in a Marine Macroalgal-Dominated Subtidal Community on the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Nelson Valdivia, María José Díaz, Ignacio Garrido, Iván Gómez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; King George Island; Fildes; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138582; https://doaj.org/article/6317f902fe9f41a6abd44bcb19c216a3

Biodiversity loss has spurred the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research over a range of ecosystems. In Antarctica, however, the relationship of taxonomic and functional diversity with ecosystem properties (e.g., community biomass) has received less attention, despite the presence of sharp and...