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Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity in a world-wide latitudinal context Gray, J.S. (2001). Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity in a world-wide latitudinal context. Polar Biol. 24(9): 633-641. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003000100244 In: Polar Biology. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg. ISSN 0722-4060; e-ISSN 1432-2056, meer Is gerelateerd aan: Gray, J.S. (2002). Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity in a world-wide latitudinal context, in: Arntz, W.E. et al. (Ed.) Ecological studies in the Antarctic sea ice zone: results of EASIZ Midterm Symposium. pp. 1-9, meer

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Biodiversity Ecology Environments > Aquatic environment > Benthic environment Antarctica [Marine Regions]; PS, Zuidelijke Oceaan [Marine Regions]; PSE, Antarctica [Marine Regions] Marien/Kust

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Gray, J.S., meer

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Abstract

In the 1950s and 1960s, the first data sets were assembled to examine whether or not there was a latitudinal gradient of species richness in the sea. These data comprised very few species and were from very small areas. However, recent data from large species lists covering broad geographical ranges suggest strongly that there is a gradient of increasing species richness from the Arctic to the tropics. However, the Southern Ocean has high species richness and in the southern hemisphere there is no clear evidence of a cline of increasing richness from pole to tropic. The great richness of the Southern Ocean compared with the Arctic is probably due to its great age, the fact that it covers a much larger area and that it has higher structural heterogeneity formed by living organisms. The importance of area as a determinant of species richness needs to be studied in more detail since most studies have been confined to small areas. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the species:area relationship and these are discussed. An alternative explanation for the latitudinal cline in the northern hemisphere is the energy-input hypothesis, but again this has not been adequately tested. Two studies on the relationship between local and regional species richness show a significant positive correlation. These findings suggest that local assemblages are not tightly organised and saturated with species but are open to recruitment from the regional species pool. Whether or not such a relationship holds in Antarctica is unknown. It is concluded that further studies of the Southern Ocean are likely to provide new findings fundamental to the "new" discipline of macroecology, which examines patterns and processes at the geographic scale.

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