Time- and depth-wise trophic niche shifts in Antarctic benthos

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Calizza, Edoardo, Careddu, Giulio, Sporta Caputi, Simona, Rossi, Loreto, Costantini, Maria Letizia
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2018
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Ross Sea; Tethys Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865725/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29570741; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194796

Climate change is expected to affect resource-consumer interactions underlying stability in polar food webs. Polar benthic organisms have adapted to the marked seasonality characterising their habitats by concentrating foraging and reproductive activity in summer months, when inputs from sympagic an...