Microbial plankton configuration in the epipelagic realm from the Beagle Channel to the Burdwood Bank, a Marine Protected Area in Sub-Antarctic waters

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Guinder, Valeria A., Malits, Andrea, Ferronato, Carola, Krock, Bernd, Garzón-Cardona, John, Martínez, Ana
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2020
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Argentina; Austral; Burdwood Bank; North Scotia Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252610/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32459813; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233156

Marine microbial plankton hold high structural and functional diversity, however, high-resolution data are lacking in a large part of the Global Ocean, such as in subpolar areas of the SW Atlantic. The Burdwood Bank (BB) is a submerged plateau (average depth 100 m) that constitutes the westernmost s...