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Friederike Weith

Endobenthic communities of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea shelf : their composition, diversity and functional traits in relation to environmental drivers

Universität Rostock, 2023

https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00004511

Abstract: The unique benthic biodiversity in the Southern Ocean is under increasing pressure as changes in sea-ice cover in the Southern Ocean have a major impact on sensitive benthic organisms which rely on food input from the surface to the seafloor. Still we know little about the Antarctic endobenthic diversity (meio- and macrofauna organisms). This thesis aims to improve the understanding of the Antarctic endobenthic biodiversity by linking taxonomic and functional aspects on species and community level with environmental drivers.

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