Biodiversity of an unknown Antarctic Sea: assessing isopod richness and abundance in the first benthic survey of the Amundsen continental shelf.

• Published in: Marine Biodiversity
• Main Authors: Kaiser, S., Barnes, D., Sands, C., Brandt, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Scotia Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0017-D574-0

Concerted efforts are being made to understand the current and past processes that have shaped Antarctic biodiversity. However, high rates of new species discoveries, sampling patchiness and bias make estimation of biodiversity there difficult. Antarctic continental shelf benthos is better studied i...