Environmental Drivers of Benthic Communities and Habitat Heterogeneity on an East Antarctic Shelf

This study presents the first analysis of benthic megafauna and habitats from the Sabrina Coast shelf, encompassing a proposed Marine Protected Area. Sea bed imagery indicated an abundant benthic fauna compared to other parts of the Antarctic shelf, dominated by brittle stars, polychaete tubeworms,...

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Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Authors: Post, Alexandra L., Lavoie, Caroline, Domack, Eugene W., Leventer, Amy, Shevenell, Amelia E, Fraser, Alexander D., NBP 14-02 SCIENCE TEAM
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2017
Subjects:
Life Sciences
Antarctic
Sabrina Coast
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/595
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102016000468
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Summary:This study presents the first analysis of benthic megafauna and habitats from the Sabrina Coast shelf, encompassing a proposed Marine Protected Area. Sea bed imagery indicated an abundant benthic fauna compared to other parts of the Antarctic shelf, dominated by brittle stars, polychaete tubeworms, and a range of other sessile and mobile taxa. The distribution of taxa was related (ρ=0.592, P

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