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

• 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, Jose M. Riascos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; 25 de Mayo; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/9e0f59c4a2174d129cc23de30bc8fc07

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...