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Southern Ocean Deep-Sea Isopod Biodiversity Research: From Census to Ecosystem Functioning

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The isolation of Antarctica makes this continent a perfect evolutionary laboratory for studies of marine biodiversity and biogeography. Attempts to describe and explain patterns of species diversity have become a major goal in biological research since the pioneering deep-sea investigations in the early 60s of the last century.

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Acknowledgments

The author is grateful for scientific support to the CoML field projects CAML, CeDAMar and to SCAR for the support of ScarMarBIN. The Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Sciences is thanked for logistics during the expeditions witha RV Polarstern, the German Science Foundation is thanked for financial support of the ANDEEP project (Br 1121/26). Alistair Crame’s kind review improved the paper.

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Brandt, A. (2012). Southern Ocean Deep-Sea Isopod Biodiversity Research: From Census to Ecosystem Functioning. In: di Prisco, G., Verde, C. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 1. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27352-0_2

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