Endobenthic communities of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea shelf: their composition, diversity and functional traits in relation to environmental drivers
The unique benthic biodiversity in the Southern Ocean is under increasing pressure as changes in sea-ice cover in the Southern Ocean have a major impact on sensitive benthic organisms which rely on food input from the surface to the seafloor. Still we know little about the Antarctic endobenthic dive...
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Universität Rostock Rostock
2023
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| Online Access: | https://rosdok.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/rosdok_disshab_0000003103 https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00004511 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00004511-9 https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00004511 |
| Summary: | The unique benthic biodiversity in the Southern Ocean is under increasing pressure as changes in sea-ice cover in the Southern Ocean have a major impact on sensitive benthic organisms which rely on food input from the surface to the seafloor. Still we know little about the Antarctic endobenthic diversity (meio- and macrofauna organisms). This thesis aims to improve the understanding of the Antarctic endobenthic biodiversity by linking taxonomic and functional aspects on species and community level with environmental drivers. Die einzigartige biologische Vielfalt am Meeresbodens des Südlichen Ozeans gerät zunehmend unter Druck, da Veränderungen der Meereisbedeckung Auswirkungen auf empfindliche benthische Organismen haben, die auf den Nahrungseintrag von der Oberfläche zum Meeresboden angewiesen sind. Dennoch wissen wir wenig über die Antarktische endobenthische Vielfalt (Meio- und Makrofauna). Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, das Verständnis der antarktischen endobenthischen Artenvielfalt zu erweitern, indem taxonomische und funktionelle Aspekte auf Arten- und Gemeinschaftsebene mit Umweltfaktoren verknüpft werden. |
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