Ectosymbiosis associated with cidaroids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) promotes benthic colonization of the seafloor in the Larsen embayments, western Antarctica

• Main Authors: Hardy, Clotilde, David, Bruno, Rigaud, Thierry, De Ridder, Chantal, Saucède, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Ecologie [animale]; Géologie et minéralogie; Géochimie; Géologie; Biologie des milieux particuliers; Antarctica; Cidaroid echinoids; Diversity; Larsen embayments; Symbiosis; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Atka; Elephant Island; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/132470; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/132470/1/Elsevier_114682.pdf

Ice-shelf collapses in the Larsen A and B embayments along the Weddell side of the Antarctic Peninsula resulted in new open-water areas that are likely reorganizing benthic communities. It is a natural laboratory to assess colonization of the sea bottom under new conditions. We tested the hypothesis...