Community recovery following catastrophic iceberg impacts in a soft-sediment shallow-water site at Signy Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Peck, Lloyd S., Brockington, Simon, Vanhove, Sandra, Beghyn, Myriam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503618/; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps186001

Ice disturbance is possibly the major structuring element of polar nearshore biological communities. Effects range from encapsulation by ice forming on rock substrata to gouging and trampling by bergs. Some 15 to 20% of the world's oceans are affected by this phenomenon, yet measurements of the...