Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

The remote and hostile Southern Ocean is home to a diverse and rich community of life that
thrives in an environment dominated by glaciations and strong currents. Marine biological …

Marine provinces, founded on contrasting floras or faunas, have been recognized for more
than 150 years but were not consistently defined by endemism until 1974. At that time …

Aim To present a synthesis of past biogeographic analyses and a new approach based on
spatially explicit biodiversity information for the Antarctic region to identify biologically …

The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

Aim To investigate whether the biogeographical regions proposed by JW Hedgpeth and
widely adopted by other authors hold true, are an oversimplification or with further data …

The Antarctic biota is highly endemic, and the diversity and abundance of taxonomic groups
differ from elsewhere in the world. Such characteristics have resulted from evolution in …

The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the contemporary Antarctic terrestrial and
marine biotas reveals many components of ancient origin. For large elements of the …

The IPY sister-projects CAML and SCAR-MarBIN provided a timely opportunity, a strong
collaborative framework and an appropriate momentum to attempt assessing the “Known …

Sponges play a key role in Antarctic marine benthic community structure and dynamics and
are often a dominant component of many Southern Ocean benthic communities …