A large population of king crabs in Palmer Deep on the west Antarctic Peninsula shelf and potential invasive impacts

Lithodid crabs (and other skeleton-crushing predators) may have been excluded from cold Antarctic continental shelf waters for more than 14 Myr. The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is warming rapidly and has been hypothesized to be soon invaded by lithodids. A remotely operated vehicle survey in Palm...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Main Authors: Smith, Craig R, Grange, Laura J, Honig, David L, Naudts, Lieven, Huber, Bruce, Guidi, Lionel, Domack, Eugene
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Earth and Environmental Sciences
invasion
Antarctic
lithodids
climate warming
bioturbation
biodiversity loss
CLIMATE-CHANGE
BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA
CRUSTACEA DECAPODA
CONTINENTAL-SHELF
LITHODID CRABS
CIRCULATION
ECOSYSTEM
ISLANDS
BENTHOS
SLOPE
Antarctic Peninsula
Bellingshausen Sea
Palmer Deep
Ross Sea
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Alaska
Online Access:https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2057915
http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2057915
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1496
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2057915/file/2057924

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