Why is the South Orkney Island shelf (the world's first high seas marine protected area) a carbon immobilization hotspot?

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Barnes, David K.A., Ireland, Louise, Hogg, Oliver T., Morley, Simon, Enderlein, Peter, Sands, Chester J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; South Orkney Islands; Soi; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511995/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/gcb.13157/abstract

The Southern Ocean archipelago, the South Orkney Islands (SOI), became the world's first entirely high seas marine protected area (MPA) in 2010. The SOI continental shelf (~44 000 km2), was less than half covered by grounded ice sheet during glaciations, is biologically rich and a key area of b...