Climate change and the threat of novel marine predators in Antarctica

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Smith, Kathryn E., Aronson, Richard B., Steffel, Brittan V., Amsler, Margaret O., Thatje, Sven, Singh, Hanumant Pratap, Anderson, Jeffrey S., Brothers, Cecilia J., Brown, Alastair, Ellis, Daniel S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11141/2595; https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2017

Historically low temperatures have severely limited skeleton-breaking predation on the Antarctic shelf, facilitating the evolution of a benthic fauna poorly defended against durophagy. Now, rapid warming of the Southern Ocean is restructuring Antarctic marine ecosystems as conditions become favorabl...