Survivors and colonizers: Contrasting biogeographic histories reconciled in the Antarctic freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei

• Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Maturana, Claudia S., Biersma, Elisabeth M., Diaz, Angie, González-Wevar, Claudio, Contador, Tamara, Convey, Peter, Jackson, Jennifer A., Poulin, Elie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; South Orkney Islands; Boeckella; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532680/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532680/1/fevo-10-1012852.pdf; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1012852/full

Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the contemporary distribution of Antarctic terrestrial biota. We assess whether the current distribution of maritime Antarctic populations of the freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei is the result of (1) a post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) colonization,...