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How many macrozoobenthic species might inhabit the Antarctic shelf?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2004

JULIAN GUTT ,
BORIS I. SIRENKO ,
IGOR S. SMIRNOV  and
WOLF E. ARNTZ
JULIAN GUTT
Affiliation:
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstraße, D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
BORIS I. SIRENKO
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, St Petersburg 199034, Russia
IGOR S. SMIRNOV
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, St Petersburg 199034, Russia
WOLF E. ARNTZ
Affiliation:
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstraße, D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
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Abstract

Based on data from the Weddell Sea in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, the total number of macrozoobenthic species was estimated for the entire Antarctic shelf using species-accumulation methods, jack-knife estimators, and Incidence-based Coverage Estimators of species richness. Ranging between 11 000 and 17 000 expected species, Antarctica seems to have an intermediate species richness when compared to other selected tropical, temperate or Arctic habitats.

Keywords

nonparametric species richness estimatorsspecies accumulationWeddell Sea

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Research Article
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Antarctic Science , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 11 - 16
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© Antarctic Science Ltd 2004

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