Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional
Roles, and Conservation Concerns Page 1 Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A …

Sponges are important components of marine benthic communities of Antarctica. Numbers
of species are high, within the lower range for tropical latitudes, similar to those in the Arctic …

Abstract The west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region has undergone significant changes in
temperature and seasonal ice dynamics since the mid-twentieth century, with strong impacts …

Pioneering deep-sea surveys established that the fauna of the continental margins is zoned
in the sense that individual species and assemblages occupy restricted depth bands. It has …

A compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
may frequent benthic habitats year‐round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout …

Glacio-marine fjords occur widely at high latitudes and have been extensively studied in the
Arctic, where heavy meltwater inputs and sedimentation yield low benthic faunal abundance …

Over 30% of the Antarctic continental shelf is permanently covered by floating ice shelves
[1], providing aphotic conditions [2, 3] for a depauperate fauna sustained by laterally …

Lithodid crabs (and other skeleton-crushing predators) may have been excluded from cold
Antarctic continental shelf waters for more than 14 Myr. The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is …

A partly new classification of shelf inhabiting Antarctic macro-zoobenthic communities is
proposed in this review. The main components are two core communities. One is dominated …

Ecological work carried out on the Antarctic and Magellan shelves since the first IBMANT
conference held at the UMAG, Punta Arenas in 1997 is summarized to identify areas where …