Our knowledge of the biodiversity of the Southern Ocean (SO) deep benthos is scarce. In
this review, we describe the general biodiversity patterns of meio-, macro-and megafaunal …

Reflecting the increasing interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental
issues, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review provides authoritative …

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 gut contents of 2982 specimens of 33 amphipod families, 71 genera and 149 species
were examined, representing a high percentage of amphipod diversity in the Iberian …

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 …

Amphipod crustaceans form one of the most diversified animal groups within the Antarctic
macrozoobenthos, both from the taxonomic point of view (more than 800 species have been …

Three expeditions were performed in the framework of ANDEEP (ANtarctic benthic DEEP-
sea biodiversity, colonisation history and recent community patterns) in order to understand …

Based on data from the Weddell Sea in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, the total
number of macrozoobenthic species was estimated for the entire Antarctic shelf using …

The biogeography and ecology of decapod crustaceans was described for the higher
latitudes of the Southern Ocean. The analyzed area included the transitional or antiboreal …