Rapid Glass Sponge Expansion after Climate-Induced Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
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Rapid Glass Sponge Expansion after Climate-Induced Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
Over 30% of the Antarctic continental shelf is permanently covered by floating ice shelves, providing aphotic conditions for a depauperate fauna sustained by laterally advected food. In much of the remaining Antarctic shallows (<300 m depth), seasonal sea-ice melting allows a patchy primary production supporting rich megabenthic communities dominated by glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)....
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.051