Relationships between Antarctic coastal and deep-sea particle fluxes: implications for the deep-sea benthos

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Isla, Enrique, Gerdes, Dieter, Palanques, Albert, Teixidó, Núria, Arntz, Wolf, Puig, Pere
• Other Authors: Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar Barcelona (ICM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid (CSIC), Hopkins Marine Station Stanford, Stanford University, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; Livingston Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00093814; https://hal.science/hal-00093814/document; https://hal.science/hal-00093814/file/Isla2006.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0046-9

Downward particle fluxes measured by means of sediment traps to a shallow semi-closed bay (Johnson’s Dock, Livingston Island) and to a deep basin in the western Bransfield Strait (Antarctic Peninsula) showed the important role of glaciers as sediment carriers and suppliers to the ocean in a continen...