Depth-related changes to density, diversity and structure of benthic megafaunal assemblages in the Fimbul ice shelf region, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1579-1592

  Jones, Daniel O B ^a   Bett, Brian J ^a   Tyler, Paul A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Deep sea; Ecology; Megabenthos; Photography; Polar; Towed camera platform

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DEEP SEA; FAUNA; ICEBERG; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FIMBUL ICE SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 34948830157     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0319-6     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Anderson JB (1999) Antarctic marine geology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2. Arnaud PM, Lopez CM, Olaso I, Ramil F, Ramos-Espla AA, Ramos A (1998) Semi-quantitative study of macrobenthic fauna in the region of the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biol 19:160-166
3. Arntz WE, Brey T, Gallardo VA (1994) Antarctic zoobenthos. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 32:241-304
4. Arntz WE, Gutt J, Klages M (1997) Antarctic marine biodiversity: an overview. In: Battaglia B, Valencia J, Walton DWH (eds) Antarctic communities: species structure and survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 3-14
5. Barry JP, Grebmeier JM, Smith J, Dunbar RB (2003) Oceanographic versus seafloor-habitat control of benthic megafaunal communities in the S.W. Ross Sea, Antarctica. Antarct Res Ser 78:327-354
6. Barthel D, Gutt J (1992) Sponge associations in the eastern Weddell Sea. Antarct Sci 4:137-150
7. Berger WH, Parker FL (1970) Diversity of planktonic Foraminifera in deep-sea sediments. Science 168:1345-1347
8. Bray JR, Curtis JT (1957) An ordination of the upland forest of southern Wisconsin. Ecol Monogr 27:225-349
9. Clarke A (1996) Benthic Marine Habitats in Antarctica. In: Ross RM, Hofmann EE, Quetin LB (eds) Foundations for ecological research west of the Antarctic Peninsula. American Geophysical Union, Antarct Res Ser, vol 70, pp 123-133
10. Clarke A, Johnston NM (2003) Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr Mar Biol 41:47-114
11. Clarke KR, Warwick RM (2001) Changes in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
12. Colwell RK (2005) EstimateS: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples. Version 7.5. User's Guide and application published at: http://www.purl.oclc.org/estimates
13. Colwell RK, Mao CX, Chang J (2004) Interpolating, extrapolating and comparing incidence-based species accumulation curves. Ecology 85:2717-2727
14. Dayton PK (1979) Observations of growth, dispersal and population dynamics of some sponges in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. In: Levey C, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Biologie des Spongiaries. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, pp 271-282
15. Dayton PK (1990) Polar benthos. In: Smith WO (ed) Polar oceanography. Part B: chemistry, biology, geology. Academic, London, pp 631-685
16. Dayton PK, Kooyman GL (1985) Benthic life under thick ice. Antarct J US 19:128
17. Dayton PK, Oliver JS (1977) Antarctic soft-bottom benthos in oligotrophic and eutrophic environments. Science 197:55-58
18. Dayton PK, Newman WA, Oliver J (1982) The vertical zonation of the deep-sea Antarctic acorn barnacle, Bathylasma corolliforme (Hoek): experimental transplants from the shelf into shallow water. J Biogeogr 9:95-109
19. Galéron J, Herman RL, Arnaud PM, Arntz WE, Hain S, Klages M (1992) Macrofaunal communities on the continental shelf and slope of the southeastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biol 12:283-290
20. Gotelli NJ, Colwell RK (2001) Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecol Lett 4:379-391
21. Gutt J (1988) On the distribution and ecology of sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea, Echinodermata) in the Weddel Sea (Antarctica). Ber Polarforschung 41:1-87
22. Gutt J (1990) New Antarctic holothurians (Echinodermata). II. Four species of the orders Aspidochirotida, Elasipodida and Apodida Zool Scr 19:119-127
23. Gutt J (2000) Some "driving forces" structuring communities of the sublittoral Antarctic macrobenthos. Antarct Sci 12:297-313
24. Gutt J (2001) On the direct impact of ice on marine benthic communities, a review. Polar Biol 24:553-564
25. Gutt J, Koltun VM (1995) Sponges of the Lazarev and Weddell Sea, Antarctica: explanations for their patchy occurrence. Antarct Sci 7:227-234
26. Gutt J, Piepenburg D (2003) Scale-dependent impact on diversity of Antarctic benthos caused by grounding of icebergs. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 253:77-83
27. Gutt J, Schickan T (1998) Epibiotic relationships in the Antarctic benthos. Antarct Sci 10:398-405
28. Gutt J, Starmans A (1998) Structure and biodiversity of megabenthos in the Weddell and Lazarev Seas (Antarctica): ecological role of physical parameters and biological interactions. Polar Biol 20:229-247
29. Gutt J, Starmans A (2001) Quantification of iceberg impact and benthic recolonisation patterns in the Weddel Sea (Antarctica). Polar Biol 24:615-619
30. Gutt J, Starmans A (2003) Patchiness of the megabenthos at small scales: ecological conclusions by examples from polar shelves. Polar Biol 26:276-278
31. Gutt J, Starmans A, Dieckmann G (1996) Impact of iceberg scouring on polar benthic habitats. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 137:1-3
32. Huggett O (1987) Mapping of hemipelagic versus turbiditic muds by feeding traces observed in deep-sea photographs. In: Weaver PPE, Thomson J (eds) Geology and Geochemistry of Abyssal Plains. Geological Society Special Publication No. 31, pp 105-112
33. Hurlbert SH (1971) The nonconcept of species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Ecology 52:577-586
34. Lampitt RS, Bett BJ, Kiriakoulakis K, Popova EE, Ragueneau O, Vangriesheim A, Wolff GA (2001) Material supply to the abyssal seafloor in the Northeast Atlantic. Prog Oceanogr 50:27-63
35. Lien R, Solheim A, Elverhoi A, Rokoengen K (1989) Iceberg scouring and seabed morphology on the eastern Weddell Sea shelf, Antarctica. Polar Res 7:43-57
36. Magurran AE (2003) Measuring biological diversity. Blackwell, Oxford
37. Margalef R (1968) Perspectives in ecological theory. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
38. Mileikovsky SA (1971) Types of larval development in marine bottom invertebrates, their distribution and ecological significance: a re-evaluation. Mar Biol 10:193-213
39. Muschenheim DK (1987) The dynamics of near-bed seston flux and suspension-feeding benthos. J Mar Res 45:473-496
40. Nicholls KW (2005) Autosub under ice cruise JR97 to the NE Weddell sea, Antarctica. Unpublished cruise report. British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
41. Nost OA (2004) Measurements of ice thickness and seabed topography under the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. J Geophys Res 109:14
42. Oliver JS, Slattery PN (1985) Effects of crustacean predators on species composition and population structure of soft-bodied infauna from McMurdo Sound. Ophelia 24:155-175
43. Oliver JS, Watson DJ, O'Connor EF, Dayton PK (1976) Benthic communities of McMurdo Sound. Antarct J US 11:58-59
44. Paine RT, Levin SA (1981) Intertidal landscapes, disturbance, and the dynamics of pattern. Ecol Monogr 51:145-178
45. Piepenburg D, Voss J, Gutt J (1997) Assemblages of sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) and brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) and off Northeast Greenland (Arctic): A comparison of diversity and abundance. Polar Biol 17:305-322
46. Rex MA, Etter RJ, Stuart CT (1997) Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos. Cambridge University Press, New York
47. Simpson EH (1949) Measurement of diversity. Nature 163:688
48. Solan M, Germano JD, Rhoads DC, Smith C, Michaud E, Parry D, Wenzhofer F, Kennedy B, Henriques C, Battle E (2002) Towards a greater understanding of pattern, scale and process in marine benthic systems: a picture is worth a thousand worms. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 285-286:313-338
49. Sousa WP (2001) Natural disturbance and the dynamics of marine benthic communities. In: Bertness MD, Gaines SD, Hay ME (eds) Marine community ecology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, pp 85-130
50. Starmans A, Gutt J, Arntz WE (1999) Mega-epibenthic communities in Arctic and Antarctic shelf areas. Mar Biol 135:269-280
51. Teixido N, Garrabou J, Gutt J, Arntz WE (2004) Recovery in Antarctic benthos after iceberg disturbance: trends in benthic composition, abundance and growth forms. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 278:1-16
52. Thatje S, Mutschke E (1999) Distribution of abundance, biomass, production and productivity of macrozoobenthos in the sub Antarctic Magellan Province (South America). Polar Biol 22:31-37
53. Thatje S, Hillenbrand CD, Larter R (2005) On the origin of Antarctic marine benthic community structure. Trends Ecol Evol 20:534-540
54. Thorson G (1950) Reproductive and larval ecology of marine bottom invertebrates. Biol Rev 25:1-45
55. Thurston MH, Bett BJ, Rice AL, Jackson PAB (1994) Variations in the invertebrate abyssal megafauna in the North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res Pt I 41:1321-1348
56. Underwood AJ, Chapman MG (1996) Scales of spatial patterns of distribution of intertidal invertebrates. Oecologia 107:212-224
57. Voss J (1988) Zoogeography and community analysis of macrozoobenthos of the Weddell Sea (Antarctica). Ber Polarforschung 45:1-145
58. Wildish D, Kristmanson D (1997) Benthic suspension feeders and flow. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge