Ecological Studies in the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Biodiversity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity in a world-wide latitudinal context

      • John S. Gray

      Pages 1-9

   3. New species of benthopelagic hydromedusae from the Weddell Sea

      • Jean Bouillon, Francesc Pagès, Josep-Maria Gili

      Pages 10-16

   4. A study on octopodids from the eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica

      • A. Louise Allcock, Uwe Piatkowski, Paul G. K. Rodhouse, John P. Thorpe

      Pages 17-23

   5. Diversity of reproductive features in some Antarctic polynoid and sabellid polychaetes, with a description of Demonax polarsterni sp. n. (Polychaeta, Sabellidae)

      • M. C. Gambi, F. P. Patti, G. Micaletto, A. Giangrande

      Pages 24-32

   6. Deep-sea polychaetes in the Weddell Sea and Drake Passage: first quantitative results

      • Brigitte Hilbig

      Pages 33-39

   7. Great differences in peracarid crustacean density between the Arctic and Antarctic deep sea

      • Angelika Brandt

      Pages 40-44

   8. Potential impact of the main benthic amphipods on the eastern Weddell Sea shelf ecosystem (Antarctica)

      • P. Dauby, Y. Scailteur, G. Chapelle, C. De Broyer

      Pages 45-50

   9. Diversity of epibenthic habitats of gammaridean amphipods in the eastern Weddell Sea

      • Claude De Broyer, Yves Scailteur, Gauthier Chapelle, Martin Rauschert

      Pages 51-60

   10. No evidence for slow-down of molecular substitution rates at subzero temperatures in Antarctic serolid isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Serolidae)

       • Christoph Held

       Pages 61-65

   11. Microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure of the digestive system of three Antarctic shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)

       • Volker Storch, Bodil A. Bluhm, Wolf E. Arntz

       Pages 66-76

   12. Synopsis of the pycnogonids from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters

       • Tomás Munilla León

       Pages 77-81

   13. Cytogenetics of the bathydraconid fish Gymnodraco acuticeps (Perciformes, Notothenioidei) from Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea

       • E. Pisano, F. Mazzei, N. Derome, C. Ozouf-Costaz, J.-C. Hureau, G. di Prisco

       Pages 82-88

   14. Seasonal fluctuations of vagile benthos in the uppermost sublittoral of a maritime Antarctic fjord

       • Krzysztof Jazdzewski, Claude De Broyer, Magdalena Pudlarz, Dariusz Zielinski

       Pages 89-96

   15. Assemblages of necrophagous animals off Enderby Land, East Antarctica

       • Ichiro Takeuchi, Kentaro Watanabe, Atsushi Tanimura, Mitsuo Fukuchi

       Pages 97-103

3. Pelagobenthic coupling

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Are Antarctic suspension-feeding communities different from those elsewhere in the world?

      • Josep-Maria Gili, Rafel Coma, Covadonga Orejas, Pablo J. López-González, Mikel Zabala

      Pages 104-116

   3. Primary production, light and vertical mixing in Potter Cove, a shallow bay in the maritime Antarctic

      • Irene R. Schloss, Gustavo A. Ferreyra

      Pages 117-124

   4. Land forcing controls pelagic-benthic coupling in Adelie Cove (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea)

      • P. Povero, M. Chiantore, C. Misic, G. Budillon, R. Cattaneo-Vietti

      Pages 125-132

Ten years ago Polar Biology published the book, Weddell Sea Ecology, containing the European "Polarstern" study EPOS in the Weddell Sea and Peninsula waters 1988/89. In certain respects, the present collection of papers, first published in Polar Biology in 2001, is a follow-up as it combines papers partly based on three "Polarstern" expeditions to the same region. Further articles relate to both land-based and shipborne studies, again primarily in the Atlantic sector and around the Antarctic Peninsula. The SCAR programme, "Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone" (EASIZ), served as an umbrella for a truly international cooperation. Although funding came exclusively from national sources, 40% of the scientists on board "Polarstern" were foreigners. Out of the 35 papers of the present volume not less than 14 papers have multinational authorship. The scope of EASIZ is wider ilian the Southern Ocean Studies in JGOFS and GLOBEC. The Contents reflect emphasis on the study of benthos, which hitherto had not received the necessary attention in the attempt to understand key questions of evolution and zoogeography of fauna from the Southern Hemisphere. The information collected under EASIZ enhanced greatly our recognition of the rather high biodiversity of ilie Antarctic shelf benthos. In order to extend these studies to ilie deeper continental slopes and the deep sea, "Polarstern" is presently on her way for ilie first international survey of deep-sea benthos in the Atlantic sector of ilie Southern Ocean.

• Antarctica
• Biodiversity
• Ecology polar
• Ice polar
• Polar Biology
• Polarbiologie
• Polareis
• Polarökologie
• physiology
• sea ice

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  Wolf E. Arntz

• British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK

  Andrew Clarke

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