Evidence of Macroalgal Colonization on Newly Ice-Free Areas following Glacial Retreat in Potter Cove (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Quartino, María Liliana, Deregibus, Dolores, Campana, Gabriela Laura, Latorre, Gustavo Edgar Juan, Momo, Fernando Roberto
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; Potter Cove; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587575; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23484000; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058223

Climate warming has been related to glacial retreat along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Over the last years, a visible melting of Fourcade Glacier (Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands) has exposed newly ice-free hard bottom areas available for benthic colonization. However, ice melting produces a...