Seasonality of oxygen consumption in five common Antarctic benthic marine invertebrates

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Souster, Terri A., Morley, Simon A., Peck, Lloyd S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Nacella; Adelaide Island; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518973/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518973/1/Seasonality%20of%20oxygen%20consumption%20in%20five%20common%20Antarctic%20benthic%20marine%20invertebrates%20AAM.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2251-3

The waters of the Southern Ocean exhibit extreme seasonality in primary production, with marine life living below 0 °C for much of the year. The metabolic cold adaptation (MCA) hypothesis suggests that polar species need elevated basal metabolic rates to enable activity in such cold which should res...