Investigations for utilizing pteropods as bioindicators of environmental change along the western Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Suprenand, Paul Mark
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2013
• Subjects: Climate Change; Ecology; Marine; Modelling; Ocean Acidification; Physiology; Other Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Atlantic salmon; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/4588; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/etd/article/5785/viewcontent/Suprenand_usf_0206D_11669.pdf

Pteropods are holoplanktonic gastropod molluscs found globally. Although species diversity is greater at lower latitudes, species abundance is greater at temperate and polar latitudes. Declines in pteropod populations have not only been correlated to declines of their major predators, but pteropods...