Missing link in the Southern Ocean: sampling the marine benthic fauna of remote Bouvet Island

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Arntz, Wolf, Thatje, Sven, Linse, Katrin, Avila, Conxita, Ballesteros, Manuel, Barnes, David, Cope, Thérèse, Cristobo, Francisco, Broyer, Claude De, Gutt, Julian, Isla, Enrique, López-González, Pablo, Montiel, Américo, Munilla, Tomás, Esplá, Alfonso Ramos, Raupach, Michael, Rauschert, Martin, Rodríguez, Estefanía, Teixidó, Núria
• Other Authors: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOC), University of Southampton, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid (CSIC), Universidad de Barcelona, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain (USC ), Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Universidad de Sevilla / University of Sevilla, Universidad de Alicante, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Bochum
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: Polychaete; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Weddell Gyre; [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics; Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Bouvet; Bouvet Island; Bouvetøya; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00093810; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0047-8

Bouvet (Bouvetøya) is a geologically young and very remote island just south of the Polar Front. Here we report samples taken during the RV “Polarstern" cruise ANTXXI/2 on 3 days in November 2003 and January 2004. This work was part of SCAR’s EASIZ programme and intended, by providing data on t...