Sophistication in a seemingly simple creature: a review of wild holothurian nutrition in marine ecosystems

J Pierrat, A Bédier, I Eeckhaut, H Magalon… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Holothurians are marine invertebrates that are among the most widespread benthic
megafauna communities by both biomass and abundance in shallow‐water and deep‐sea …

Responses of Southern Ocean seafloor habitats and communities to global and local drivers of change

MJ Brasier, D Barnes, N Bax, A Brandt… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Knowledge of life on the Southern Ocean seafloor has substantially grown since the
beginning of this century with increasing ship-based surveys and regular monitoring sites …

Societal importance of Antarctic negative feedbacks on climate change: blue carbon gains from sea ice, ice shelf and glacier losses

DKA Barnes, CJ Sands, ML Paulsen, B Moreno… - The Science of …, 2021 - Springer
Diminishing prospects for environmental preservation under climate change are intensifying
efforts to boost capture, storage and sequestration (long-term burial) of carbon. However, as …

Deep-sea benthic megafauna hotspot shows indication of resilience to impact from massive turbidity flow

KT Bigham, AA Rowden, DA Bowden… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sediment density flows are large scale disturbances that can have dramatic impacts on
seafloor animal communities in the deep sea. Seafloor imagery collected in Kaikōura …

Glacial dropstones: islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords

AF Ziegler, CR Smith, KF Edwards… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017 - int-res.com
The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) margin is dominated by glaciomarine fjords and has
experienced rapid climate warming in recent decades. Glacial calving along the peninsula …

Observations and models to support the first Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO)

MJ Brasier, A Constable, J Melbourne-Thomas… - Journal of Marine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Assessments of the status and trends of habitats, species and ecosystems are needed for
effective ecosystem-based management in marine ecosystems. Knowledge on imminent …

[HTML][HTML] Variability in zoobenthic blue carbon storage across a southern polar gradient

BAV Frinault, DKA Barnes - Marine Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The seabed of the Antarctic continental shelf hosts most of Antarctica's known species,
including taxa considered indicative of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). Nonetheless …

Benthic biodiversity in the South Orkney Islands Southern shelf marine protected area

MJ Brasier, SM Grant, PN Trathan, L Allcock… - Biodiversity, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf (SOISS) Marine Protected Area (MPA)
was the first MPA to be designated entirely within the high seas and is managed under the …

Benthic meltwater fjord habitats formed by rapid glacier recession on King George Island, Antarctica

K Jerosch, H Pehlke, P Monien… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The coasts of the West Antarctic Peninsula are strongly influenced by glacier meltwater
discharge. The spatial structure and biogeochemical composition of inshore habitats are …

Benthic ecosystem cascade effects in Antarctica using Bayesian network inference

EG Mitchell, RJ Whittle, HJ Griffiths - Communications Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Antarctic sea-floor communities are unique, and more closely resemble those of the
Palaeozoic than equivalent contemporary habitats. However, comparatively little is known …