Abiotic Changes Driving Microphytoplankton Functional Diversity in Admiralty Bay, King George Island (Antarctica)

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Domênica Teixeira de Lima, Gleyci Aparecida Oliveira Moser, Fernanda Reinhardt Piedras, Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, Denise Rivera Tenenbaum, Márcio Murilo Barboza Tenório, Marcos Vinícius Pereira Borges de Campos, Thais de Oliveira Cornejo, José Juan Barrera-Alba
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: functional diversity; microphytoplankton; Antarctic; abiotic variation; meltwater; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Admiralty Bay; Western Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00638; https://doaj.org/article/9b5722e799654ae99439b7e86d06c4dc

Environmental gradients can provide habitat-specific scenarios for community functional diversity (FD) that determine the composition of populations on both spatial and temporal scales. The western shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula has experiencing increasing air temperatures while the climate is tra...