Oceanography and marine biology : : an annual review. / Volume 56 / / editors, S.J. Hawkins [and 4 others].

• Author: Peck, Lloyd S.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hawkins, S. J.
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, FL : : CRC PRESS,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (chapter 3, pages 2-133) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Includes index.

Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading effect of ice in its many forms and extreme seasonality of light and phytobiont productivity. Antarctica is, however, the most isolated continent on Earth and is the only one that lacks a continental shelf connection with another continent. This isolation, along with the many millions of years that these conditions have existed, has produced a fauna that is both diverse, with around 17,000 marine invertebrate species living there, and has the highest proportions of endemic species of any continent. The reasons for this are discussed. The isolation, history and unusual environmental conditions have resulted in the fauna producing a range and scale of adaptations to low temperature and seasonality that are unique. The best known such adaptations include channichthyid icefish that lack haemoglobin and transport oxygen around their bodies only in solution, or the absence, in some species, of what was only 20 years ago termed the universal heat shock response.

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Implications of Long-Term Climate Change for Biogeography and Ecological Processes in the Southern Ocean; Protected Areas: The False Hope for Cetacean Conservation?; Antarctic Marine Biodiversity: Adaptations, Environments and Responses to Change; The Carbon Dioxide Vents of Ischia, Italy, A Natural System to Assess Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems: An Overview of Research and Comparisons with Other Vent Systems

Impacts and Environmental Risks of Oil Spills on Marine Invertebrates, Algae and Seagrass: A Global Review from an Australian PerspectiveSymbiotic Polychaetes Revisited: An Update of the Known Species and Relationships (1998-2017); Author Index; Subject Index