Sponsor
This research was supported by NSF grant OPP-0132032 to H. William Detrich III, and by NSF Postdoctoral Award ANT-0443754 to Bradley A. Buckley.
Published In
Oceanography
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2012
Subjects
Nototheniidae -- Antarctica, Nototheniidae -- Ecology, Adaptation (Biology) -- Polar regions, Marine animals -- Climatic factors -- Polar regions
Abstract
The goal of the ICEFISH 2004 cruise, which was conducted on board RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and traversed the transitional zones linking the South Atlantic to the Southern Ocean, was to compare the evolution, ecology, adaptational biology, community structure, and population dynamics of Antarctic notothenioid fishes relative to the cool/temperate notothenioids of the sub-Antarctic. To place this work in a comprehensive ecological context, cruise participants surveyed the benthos and geology of the biogeographic provinces and island shelves on either side of the Antarctic Polar Front (or Antarctic Convergence). Genome-enabled comparison of the responses of cold-living and temperate notothenioids to heat stress confirmed the sensitivity of the former to a warming Southern Ocean. Successful implementation of the international and interdisciplinary ICEFISH research cruise provides a model for future exploration of the sub-Antarctic sectors of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
DOI
10.5670/oceanog.2012.93
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12667
Citation Details
Detrich, H.W. III, B.A. Buckley, D.F. Doolittle, C.D. Jones, and S.J. Lockhart. 2012. Sub-Antarctic and high Antarctic notothenioid fishes: Ecology and adaptational biology revealed by the ICEFISH 2004 cruise of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. Oceanography 25(3):184–187.
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