Antarctic benthic ecological change

HJ Griffiths, VJ Cummings, A Van de Putte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The benthic community around Antarctica is diverse and highly endemic. These cold-
adapted species are under threat from local and global drivers, including warming …

Icebergs, sea ice, blue carbon and Antarctic climate feedbacks

DKA Barnes, A Fleming, CJ Sands… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sea ice, including icebergs, has a complex relationship with the carbon held within animals
(blue carbon) in the polar regions. Sea-ice losses around West Antarctica's continental shelf …

Iceberg killing fields limit huge potential for benthic blue carbon in Antarctic shallows

DKA Barnes - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate‐forced ice losses are increasing potential for iceberg‐seabed collisions, termed ice
scour. At Ryder Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) sea ice, oceanography, phytoplankton …

Antarctic food web architecture under varying dynamics of sea ice cover

L Rossi, S Sporta Caputi, E Calizza, G Careddu… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract In the Ross Sea, biodiversity organisation is strongly influenced by sea-ice cover,
which is characterised by marked spatio-temporal variations. Expected changes in seasonal …

Carrion availability in space and time

M Moleón, N Selva, MM Quaggiotto, DM Bailey… - Carrion ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
Although carrion ecology has received a great deal of scientific attention in recent years,
carrion supply is still poorly described in most ecosystems. Animals die from many causes …

Seasonal food web dynamics in the Antarctic benthos of Tethys Bay (Ross Sea): implications for biodiversity persistence under different seasonal sea-ice coverage

SS Caputi, G Careddu, E Calizza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Determining food web architecture and its seasonal cycles is a precondition for making
predictions about Antarctic marine biodiversity under varying climate change scenarios …

Predicting which species succeed in climate-forced polar seas

SA Morley, DKA Barnes, MJ Dunn - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the mechanisms which determine the capacity of any species to adapt to
changing environmental conditions is one of the foremost requirements in accurately …

Functional group diversity is key to Southern Ocean benthic carbon pathways

DKA Barnes, CJ Sands - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
High latitude benthos are globally important in terms of accumulation and storage of ocean
carbon, and the feedback this is likely to have on regional warming. Understanding this …

Can Antarctica's shallow zoobenthos 'bounce back'from iceberg scouring impacts driven by climate change?

N Zwerschke, SA Morley, LS Peck… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
All coastal systems experience disturbances and many across the planet are under
unprecedented threat from an intensification of a variety of stressors. The West Antarctic …

Individual diet variability shapes the architecture of Antarctic benthic food webs

S Sporta Caputi, JP Kabala, L Rossi, G Careddu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Antarctic biodiversity is affected by seasonal sea-ice dynamics driving basal resource
availability. To (1) determine the role of intraspecific dietary variability in structuring benthic …