Biodiversity and biogeography of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic mollusca

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Linse, Katrin, Griffiths, Huw J., Barnes, David K.A., Clarke, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Zoology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; Dronning Maud Land; Scotia Sea; Weddell; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Enderby Land
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/76/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.05.003

For many decades molluscan data have been critical to the establishment of the concept of a global-scale increase in species richness from the poles to the equator. Low polar diversity is key to this latitudinal cline in diversity. Here we investigate richness patterns in the two largest classes of...