Image_1_Breaking All the Rules: The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf.JPEG

• Main Authors: Huw J. Griffiths (9468143), Paul Anker (10142045), Katrin Linse (92032), Jamie Maxwell (10142048), Alexandra L. Post (7191743), Craig Stevens (4331830), Slawek Tulaczyk (4440934), James A. Smith (1496818)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; dropstone; oligotrophic; borehole; sponge (Porifera); Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Weddell Sea; Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Weddell; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.642040.s001

The seafloor beneath floating ice shelves accounts roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km 2 of continental shelf. Prior to this study, our knowledge of these habitats and the life they support was restricted to what has been observed from eight boreholes drilled for geological and glaciolog...