Volume 39, Issue 5 | Polar Biology

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Volume 39, Issue 5

May 2016

Special Issue: Antarctic Peninsula Shelf Biology

Issue Editors:

Julian Gutt,
Bruno David,
Enrique Isla,
Dieter Piepenburg

13 articles in this issue

High environmental variability and steep biological gradients in the waters off the northern Antarctic Peninsula: Polarstern expedition PS81 (ANT-XXIX/3)
Julian Gutt
Bruno David
Dieter Piepenburg
Editorial 06 April 2016 Pages: 761 - 764
Environmental information for a marine ecosystem research approach for the northern Antarctic Peninsula (RV Polarstern expedition PS81, ANT-XXIX/3)
B. Dorschel
J. Gutt
H. Herr
Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 765 - 787
Water masses in the Bransfield Strait and adjacent seas, austral summer 2013
Wilma Gertrud Charlotte Huneke
Oliver Huhn
Michael Schröeder
Original Paper 04 April 2016 Pages: 789 - 798
Horizontal niche partitioning of humpback and fin whales around the West Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from a concurrent whale and krill survey
Helena Herr
Sacha Viquerat
Julian Gutt
Original Paper 24 March 2016 Pages: 799 - 818
Organic carbon and biogenic silica in marine sediments in the vicinities of the Antarctic Peninsula: spatial patterns across a climatic gradient
Enrique Isla
Original Paper 17 November 2015 Pages: 819 - 828
Macroepibenthic communities at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, an ecological survey at different spatial scales
J. Gutt
M. C. Alvaro
N. Teixidó
Original Paper 09 November 2015 Pages: 829 - 849
Sponge communities of the Antarctic Peninsula: influence of environmental variables on species composition and richness
Daniel Kersken
Barbara Feldmeyer
Dorte Janussen
Original Paper 19 January 2016 Pages: 851 - 862
Spatial distribution patterns of ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula
Alexandra Segelken-Voigt
Astrid Bracher
Dieter Piepenburg
Original Paper 09 March 2016 Pages: 863 - 879
Ophiuroid biodiversity patterns along the Antarctic Peninsula
Stefano Ambroso
Astrid Böhmer
Núria Teixidó
Original Paper 14 March 2016 Pages: 881 - 895
The taxonomic challenge posed by the Antarctic echinoids Abatus bidens and Abatus cavernosus (Schizasteridae, Echinoidea)
Bruno David
Thomas Saucède
Chantal De Ridder
Original Paper 01 December 2015 Pages: 897 - 912
Trophic plasticity of Antarctic echinoids under contrasted environmental conditions
Loïc N. Michel
Bruno David
Chantal De Ridder
Original Paper 26 December 2015 Pages: 913 - 923
Looking beneath the tip of the iceberg: diversification of the genus Epimeria on the Antarctic shelf (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
Marie L. Verheye
Thierry Backeljau
Cédric d’Udekem d’Acoz
Original Paper 10 March 2016 Pages: 925 - 945
Screening of the Antarctic marine sponges (Porifera) as a source of bioactive compounds
Sabina Berne
Martina Kalauz
Kristina Sepčić
Original Paper 20 November 2015 Pages: 947 - 959