Follow-up of the sponge and asteroid populations at the station Larsen A south (PS69/724-1 and PS77/253-1), Antarctic Peninsula, between 2007 and 2011

• Main Authors: Fillinger, Laura, Janussen, Dorte, Lundälv, Tomas, Richter, Claudio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: AWI_BPP; Bentho-Pelagic Processes @ AWI; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; Glass sponges
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.809446; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809446

Over 30% of the Antarctic continental shelf is permanently covered by floating ice shelves, providing aphotic conditions for a depauperate fauna sustained by laterally advected food. In much of the remaining Antarctic shallows (<300 m depth), seasonal sea-ice melting allows a patchy primary produ...