Antarctic benthic ecological change

HJ Griffiths, VJ Cummings, A Van de Putte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The benthic community around Antarctica is diverse and highly endemic. These cold-
adapted species are under threat from local and global drivers, including warming …

Deep-living and diverse Antarctic seaweeds as potentially important contributors to global carbon fixation

LW Tait, C Chin, W Nelson, S George… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Global models predict that Antarctica has little suitable habitat for macroalgae and that
Antarctic macroalgae therefore make a negligible contribution to global carbon fixation …

Acoustic map** reveals macroalgal settlement following a retreating glacier front in the High Arctic

V Gonzalez Triginer, M Beck, A Sen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Vegetated coastal marine ecosystems are projected to expand northwards in the Arctic due
to climate change, but the mechanisms for this expansion are complex and nuanced …

A Systematic Review and Global Trends on Blue Carbon and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Study from 2012 to 2023

S Pang, M Abdul Majid, HACC Perera, MSI Sarkar… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Halfway through Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
only 15 percent of the goals have been reached. As a carbon storage and climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Climate-driven changes in underwater irradiance and primary productivity in an Antarctic fjord (Potter Cove, Western Antarctic Peninsula)

D Deregibus, ML Quartino, ER Barlett, K Zacher… - Science of The Total …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot of climate warming, evidencing
glacier retreat and a decrease in the fast-ice duration. This study provides a> 30-y time …

Glacial melt impacts carbon flows in an Antarctic benthic food web

U Braeckman, K Soetaert, F Pasotti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Most coastal glaciers on the West Antarctic Peninsula are in retreat. Glacial ice scouring and
lithogenic particle runoff increase turbidity and shape soft sediment benthic communities …

Spatial variations of ascidian diets in a glacial retreated fjord of the West Antarctic Peninsula

DU Kim, IY Ahn, JK Gal, SY Ha, JS Khim - Marine Environmental Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The impacts of glacial retreat on diets of ascidians, one of the filter feeders and a major
component of the benthic-pelagic energy pathway, remain unclear. We analyzed carbon …

Loss of pelagic fish and zooplankton density associated with subglacial upwelling in high Arctic estuaries may be mitigated by benthic habitat expansion following …

VG Triginer, A Sen, M Geoffroy, B Damsgård - Arctic Science, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Glacier fronts are hotspots of pelagic productivity due to upwelling of nutrient-rich water. As
tidewater glaciers retreat into land, this subglacial circulation will disappear and …

The response of trophic interaction networks to multiple stressors along a large-scale latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere

TI Marina, LA Saravia, ID Rodriguez… - Environmental …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Ecological networks offer valuable insights into community structure, key species
identification, and ecosystem management. Understanding how these networks respond to …

Vertical distribution of brown and red macroalgae along the central Western Antarctic Peninsula

CD Amsler, MO Amsler, S Heiser, JB McClintock… - Botanica …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Fleshy macroalgae dominate the hard bottom, shallow waters along the Western Antarctic
Peninsula (WAP). Although there are numerous reports on their ecology, geographic …