Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

Abstract In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term
oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and wind …

As marine ecosystems are influenced by global and regional processes, standardized
information on community structure has become crucial for assessing broad-scale …

Ocean acidification is a well recognised threat to marine ecosystems. High latitude regions
are predicted to be particularly affected due to cold waters and naturally low carbonate …

Predicting the dynamics of ecosystems requires an understanding of how trophic
interactions respond to environmental change. In Antarctic marine ecosystems, food web …

The biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate variability of the Antarctic continent and the
Southern Ocean are major components of the whole Earth system. Antarctic ecosystems are …

A partly new classification of shelf inhabiting Antarctic macro-zoobenthic communities is
proposed in this review. The main components are two core communities. One is dominated …

The aim of this study was to use data for gastropod and bivalve molluscs to determine
whether the fauna of the Southern Ocean is sufficiently well known to establish robust …

The need for sound baseline information about community structure and composition
against which changes can be detected and quantified is a well-recognised priority in …

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) margin is dominated by glaciomarine fjords and has
experienced rapid climate warming in recent decades. Glacial calving along the peninsula …