Antarctic ecosystems in transition–life between stresses and opportunities

J Gutt, E Isla, JC Xavier, BJ Adams, IY Ahn… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Important findings from the second decade of the 21st century on the impact of
environmental change on biological processes in the Antarctic were synthesised by 26 …

Parental care and reproductive strategies in notothenioid fishes

M La Mesa, F Llompart, E Riginella… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adoption of parental care behaviours is the distinctive reproductive characteristic
associated with the diversification and divergence of notothenioid fishes into an array of …

Bathymetric distributions of notothenioid fishes

JT Eastman - Polar Biology, 2017 - Springer
There has been no comprehensive study of the bathymetry of notothenioid fishes. Therefore,
I analyzed minimum and maximum depths and depth ranges for 128 of 142 species that …

No barrier to emergence of bathyal king crabs on the Antarctic shelf

RB Aronson, KE Smith, SC Vos… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Cold-water conditions have excluded durophagous (skeleton-breaking) predators from the
Antarctic seafloor for millions of years. Rapidly warming seas off the western Antarctic …

Benthic marine calcifiers coexist with CaCO3‐undersaturated seawater worldwide

M Lebrato, AJ Andersson, JB Ries… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification and decreasing seawater saturation state with respect to calcium
carbonate (CaCO3) minerals have raised concerns about the consequences to marine …

The buoyancy-based biotope axis of the evolutionary radiation of Antarctic cryonotothenioid fishes

JT Eastman - Polar Biology, 2020 - Springer
In the absence of any prior comprehensive analysis, I evaluate divergence along the biotope
axis in the habitat stage of the evolutionary radiation of Antarctic cryonotothenioids. I utilize …

The axes of divergence for the evolutionary radiation of notothenioid fishes in Antarctica

JT Eastman - Diversity, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Notothenioid fishes, a perciform group, radiated in the cold shelf waters around the Antarctic
continent and the 110 species dominate fish diversity, abundance, and biomass at levels …

Spatial patterns of continental shelf faunal community structure along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

AM Friedlander, W Goodell, P Salinas-de-León… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Knowledge of continental shelf faunal biodiversity of Antarctica is patchy and as such, the
ecology of this unique ecosystem is not fully understood. To this end, we deployed baited …

Comments on “The Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni): biology, ecology, and life history in the Ross Sea region,” by S. Hanchet et al. (Hydrobiologia, 2015 …

DG Ainley, JT Eastman, CM Brooks - Hydrobiologia, 2016 - Springer
We expand the paper by Hanchet et al.(Hydrobiologia 761: 397–414, 2015), published in
Hydrobiologia, by elaborating upon neutral buoyancy, a critical aspect of Antarctic toothfish …

Spatial distribution and habitat preferences of demersal fish assemblages in the southeastern Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean)

M La Mesa, D Piepenburg, SEA Pineda-Metz… - Polar Biology, 2019 - Springer
Our knowledge on distribution, habitats and behavior of Southern Ocean fishes living at
water depths beyond scuba-diving limits is still sparse, as it is difficult to obtain quantitative …