Ice disturbance intensity structures benthic communities in nearshore Antarctic waters

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Author: Smale, Dan A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 2007
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Glaciology; Ecology and Environment; Adelaide Island; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11955/; http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2007/349/m349p089.pdf

Ice scouring is one of the 5 most significant natural forces acting on ecosystems, yet very few data exist linking the intensity of ice disturbance with parameters of benthic community structure. The benthos at 2 nearshore sites on Adelaide Island, Antarctica, was sampled at 3 resolutions to make no...