Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica
Antarctica currently undergoes strong and contrasted impacts linked with climate change. While the West Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions in the world, resulting in sea ice cover decrease, the sea ice cover of East Antarctica unexpectedly tends to increase, possibly in r...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/210019 2024-04-21T07:52:29+00:00 Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica Michel, Loïc Dubois, Philippe Eleaume, Marc Fournier, Jérôme Gallut, Cyril Jane, Philip Lepoint, Gilles MARE - Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - ULiège FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège 2017-05-04 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/210019 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/210019/1/Michel_BASIS2017.pdf en eng http://rectoversoprojects.be https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/210019 info:hdl:2268/210019 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/210019/1/Michel_BASIS2017.pdf open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Benelux Association of Stable Isotope Scientists (BASIS) Annual Meeting 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands [NL], 03-04/05/2017 antarctica food web stable isotopes benthos invertebrates sea ice climate change SIAR southern ocean Life sciences Zoology Aquatic sciences & oceanology Environmental sciences & ecology Sciences du vivant Zoologie Sciences aquatiques & océanologie Sciences de l’environnement & écologie conference paper not in proceedings http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cp info:eu-repo/semantics/conferencePaper 2017 ftorbi 2024-03-27T14:48:05Z Antarctica currently undergoes strong and contrasted impacts linked with climate change. While the West Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions in the world, resulting in sea ice cover decrease, the sea ice cover of East Antarctica unexpectedly tends to increase, possibly in relation with changes in atmospheric circulation. Changes in sea ice cover are likely to influence benthic food web structure through modifications of benthic-pelagic coupling, disruption of benthic production and/or modifications of benthic community structure (i.e. resource availability for benthic consumers). Here, we studied shallow (0-20 m) benthic food web structure on the coasts of Petrels Island (Adélie Land, East Antarctica) during an event of unusually high spatial and temporal (two successive austral summers without seasonal break-up) sea ice cover. Using stable isotope ratios of C and N and the SIAR mixing model, we examined importance of 4 organic matter sources (benthic macroalgae, benthic biofilm, sympagic algae, suspended particulate organic matter) for nutrition of dominant primary consumers and omnivores. 14 invertebrate taxa including sessile and mobile polychaetes, gastropods, bivalves, sea stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers were studied. Our results indicate that most benthic invertebrates predominantly relied on sympagic algae. Despite its very high abundance, trophic role of benthic biofilm seemed limited. However, interpretation of data was complicated by the peculiar ecophysiological features of Antarctic invertebrates, whose very low metabolic rates could be associated to low isotopic turnover and long time to reach isotopic equilibrium with their food items. Resource use by consumers from Adélie Land markedly differed from literature data about invertebrate diet in coastal Antarctica, suggesting 1) important influence of increased sea ice cover on benthic food web structure and 2) high spatial and/or temporal variation in the feeding habits of studied organisms, likely linked with a high ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica East Antarctica Sea ice Southern Ocean University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) |
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antarctica food web stable isotopes benthos invertebrates sea ice climate change SIAR southern ocean Life sciences Zoology Aquatic sciences & oceanology Environmental sciences & ecology Sciences du vivant Zoologie Sciences aquatiques & océanologie Sciences de l’environnement & écologie Michel, Loïc Dubois, Philippe Eleaume, Marc Fournier, Jérôme Gallut, Cyril Jane, Philip Lepoint, Gilles Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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Antarctica currently undergoes strong and contrasted impacts linked with climate change. While the West Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions in the world, resulting in sea ice cover decrease, the sea ice cover of East Antarctica unexpectedly tends to increase, possibly in relation with changes in atmospheric circulation. Changes in sea ice cover are likely to influence benthic food web structure through modifications of benthic-pelagic coupling, disruption of benthic production and/or modifications of benthic community structure (i.e. resource availability for benthic consumers). Here, we studied shallow (0-20 m) benthic food web structure on the coasts of Petrels Island (Adélie Land, East Antarctica) during an event of unusually high spatial and temporal (two successive austral summers without seasonal break-up) sea ice cover. Using stable isotope ratios of C and N and the SIAR mixing model, we examined importance of 4 organic matter sources (benthic macroalgae, benthic biofilm, sympagic algae, suspended particulate organic matter) for nutrition of dominant primary consumers and omnivores. 14 invertebrate taxa including sessile and mobile polychaetes, gastropods, bivalves, sea stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers were studied. Our results indicate that most benthic invertebrates predominantly relied on sympagic algae. Despite its very high abundance, trophic role of benthic biofilm seemed limited. However, interpretation of data was complicated by the peculiar ecophysiological features of Antarctic invertebrates, whose very low metabolic rates could be associated to low isotopic turnover and long time to reach isotopic equilibrium with their food items. Resource use by consumers from Adélie Land markedly differed from literature data about invertebrate diet in coastal Antarctica, suggesting 1) important influence of increased sea ice cover on benthic food web structure and 2) high spatial and/or temporal variation in the feeding habits of studied organisms, likely linked with a high ... |
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Michel, Loïc Dubois, Philippe Eleaume, Marc Fournier, Jérôme Gallut, Cyril Jane, Philip Lepoint, Gilles |
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Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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Unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal Antarctica |
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unusually high sea ice cover influences resource use by benthic invertebrates in coastal antarctica |
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Benelux Association of Stable Isotope Scientists (BASIS) Annual Meeting 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands [NL], 03-04/05/2017 |
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