Against the flow: evidence of multiple recent invasions of warmer continental shelf waters by a Southern Ocean brittle star

The Southern Ocean is anomalously rich in benthos. This biodiversity is native, mostly endemic and perceived to be uniquely threatened from climate- and anthropogenically- mediated invasions. Major international scientific effort throughout the last decade has revealed more connectivity than expec...

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Main Authors: Chester John Sands, Timothy eO'Hara, David K. A. Barnes, Rafael eMartín-Ledo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00063/full