Prospects for the return of shell-crushing crabs to Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Biogeography
• Main Authors: Aronson, R.B., Frederich, M., Price, R., Thatje, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366516/

Rapidly rising sea temperatures off the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) are placing the Antarctic benthos at risk of increasing predation from durophagous (shell-breaking) brachyuran and anomuran crabs. Crabs are at present excluded from Antarctic-shelf environments by their limited capacity to do...