Under-ice communities structured by sea-ice habitats in changing Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems

• Main Author: David, Carmen Lucia
• Other Authors: Brandt, Angelika (Prof. Dr.)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky 2015
• Subjects: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie; 42.07 Biogeographie; 42.65 Tiergeographie; Tierökologie; 42.94 Meeresbiologie; ddc:570; Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Arctic Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Wandel; Antarc*; Antarktis*; Arktis; Arktis*; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-77962; https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/6657

Over the past decades, the effects of global-climate change have been observed in the polar oceans. Our knowledge about how changes in sea-ice dynamics affect the associated fauna is limited, especially in the ice-covered central Arctic and the seasonal ice zone of the Southern Ocean. Ice-associated...