Wiebke Brökeland

TL;DR: New data from recent sampling expeditions in the deep Weddell Sea and adjacent areas reveal high levels of new biodiversity, challenging suggestions that deep-sea diversity is depressed in the Southern Ocean and providing a basis for exploring the evolutionary significance of the varied biogeographic patterns observed in this remote environment.

TL;DR: In this article, three expeditions were performed in the framework of ANDEEP (ANtarctic benthic DEEP-sea biodiversity, colonisation history and recent community patterns) in order to understand the Southern Ocean biodiversity of the Isopoda and to investigate faunal connections with other deep-sea areas in the world oceans.

TL;DR: The species accumulation curve shows that the SO deep sea was not sampled representatively during ANDEEP I & II and further sampling is necessary, and depth was the most important factor for differences in isopod community patterns.

TL;DR: Molecular data sets reveal detailed phylogenetic insights within the Haploniscus cucullus complex, supporting the monophyly of all species and show that both genes can be used as a marker for DNA taxonomy.

TL;DR: Sampling in the deep sea is expensive and time consuming and as yet this is the best isopod data set available from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, however, only 28 sites were visited and the statistical power is thus limited.