Interpopulational differences in the nutritional condition of Aequiyoldia eightsii (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) during austral summer at the Western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Bascur, Miguel, Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos, Morley, Simon A., Román-Gonzalez, Alejandro, Cárdenas, Leyla, Schloss, Irene R., Meredith, Michael, Venables, Hugh, Brante, Antonio, Urzúa, Ángel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Rothera; Rothera Research Station; Yelcho; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528042/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528042/1/peerj-12679.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/12679/

The Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot for environmental change and has a strong environmental gradient from North to South. Here, for the first time we used adult individuals of the bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii to evaluate large-scale spatial variation in the biochemical composition (me...