Environmental conditions and physiological tolerances of intertidal fauna in relation to shore zonation at Husvik, South Georgia

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Davenport, John, Macalister, Hector
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1996
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greenland; Nacella; Norway; Signy Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515017/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400040923

South Georgia, an extremely isolated island within the Antarctic Convergence, was covered by an extensive icecap until ~10,000 years ago. In consequence the depauperate intertidal fauna is of recent origin and consists almost entirely of brooders or direct developers which probably arrived as a resu...