A sclerochronological archive for Antarctic coastal waters based on the marine bivalve Yoldia eightsi (Jay, 1839) from the South Orkney Islands

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Román González, Alejandro, Scourse, James, Richardson, Christopher, Peck, Lloyd S., Bentley, Michael J., Butler, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Factory Cove; Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutputs/a-sclerochronological-archive-for-antarctic-coastal-waters-based-on-the-marine-bivalve-yoldia-eightsi-jay-1839-from-the-south-orkney-islands(7741e627-a8a5-4321-b09d-61eb5fa63550).html; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616658525; https://research.bangor.ac.uk/ws/files/13878823/Roman_Gonzalez_Scourse_Richardson_et_al_Holocene_final_copy_accepted_for_publication.pdf

The scarcity of long instrumental series from the Southern Ocean limits our understanding of key climate and environmental feedbacks within the Antarctic system. We present an assessment for the Antarctic mollusc bivalve Yoldia eightsi as an Antarctic coastal climatological archive, based on annuall...