Abundance and distributional patterns of benthic peracarid crustaceans from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and Weddell Sea

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Di Franco, Davide, Linse, Katrin, Griffiths, Huw, Haas, Christian, Saeedi, Hanieh, Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; Filchner Trough; Prince Gustav Channel; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527500/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527500/1/fmars-07-554663.pdf; https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.554663

Climate change is influencing some environmental variables in the Southern Ocean (SO) and this will have an effect on the marine biodiversity. Peracarid crustaceans are one of the dominant and most species-rich groups of the SO benthos. To date, our knowledge on the influence of environmental variab...