Climate change and the threat of novel marine predators in Antarctica

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Smith, K.E., Aronson, R.B., Steffel, B.V., Amsler, M.O., Thatje, S., Singh, H., Anderson, J., Brothers, C.J., Brown, Alastair, Ellis, D.S., Havenhand, J.N., James, W.R., Moksnes, P.-O., Randolph, A.W., Sayre-McCord, T., McClintock, J.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/416052/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/416052/1/Smith_et_al_2017_Ecosphere.pdf

Historically low temperatures have severely limited skeleton-breaking predation on the Antarctic shelf, facilitating the evolution of a benthic fauna poorly defended against durophagy. Now, rapid warming of the Southern Ocean is restructuring Antarctic marine ecosystems as conditions become favorabl...