Benthic fauna declined on a whitening Antarctic continental shelf

Sea-ice cover in Antarctica has increased over the last decades and reached a maximum in 2014. Here, the authors report strong declines in zoobenthic biomass and abundance and changes in community composition on the NE Weddell Sea shelf over 26 years, with implications for blue carbon and biochemist...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Santiago E. A. Pineda-Metz, Dieter Gerdes, Claudio Richter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
Subjects:
Science
Q
Antarctic
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctica
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16093-z
https://doaj.org/article/b214169e6e20441989491c5dee442b60
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Summary:Sea-ice cover in Antarctica has increased over the last decades and reached a maximum in 2014. Here, the authors report strong declines in zoobenthic biomass and abundance and changes in community composition on the NE Weddell Sea shelf over 26 years, with implications for blue carbon and biochemistry in a globally important marine region.

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