A large population of king crabs in Palmer Deep on the west Antarctic Peninsula shelf and potential invasive impacts

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Smith, C.R., Grange, L.J., Honig, D.L., Naudts, L., Huber, B., Guidi, L., Domack, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Invasive species; Neolithodes Milne-Edwards and Bouvier; 1894; Neolithodes yaldwyni; PS; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bouvier; Palmer Deep; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=208373

Lithodid crabs (and other skeleton-crushing predators) may have been excluded from cold Antarctic continental shelf waters for more than 14 Myr. The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is warming rapidly and has been hypothesized to be soon invaded by lithodids. A remotely operated vehicle survey in Palm...