Precautionary spatial protection to facilitate the scientific study of habitats and communities under ice shelves in the context of recent, rapid, regional climate change
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...Potentially, species that have their southernmost distribution in the subAntarctic and which may be able to extend their range further to the south, may be possible invaders to these new habitats (Aronson et al., 2007; Thatje and Fuentes, 2003; Griffiths et al., 2013)....
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...In addition, altered ecosystem dynamics may also allow non-native species to invade, as ocean warming potentially removes physiological barriers that have previously led to the isolation of the Antarctic benthos (Clarke et al., 2004; Barnes and Peck, 2008; Aronson et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2011)....
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...A period of 10 years is insufficient time to understand how benthic colonisation might proceed, even in temperate regions (Smith, 1994; Grassel and Morse-Porteous, 1987)....
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...However, these communities are also potentially much more dynamic than so far assumed and can show surprising rates of change, even over relatively short time periods (Gutt et al., 2010, 2013; Dayton et al., 2013)....
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...…2002) and ocean acidification (Bednaršek et al., 2012), reductions in the extent and timing of seasonal sea-ice (Stammerjohn et al., 2008) and the retreat and collapse of ice shelves, glaciers and ice tongues (Cook and Vaughan, 2010; Cook et al., 2005; Gutt et al., 2010, 2013; Rignot et al., 2013)....
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...The positions of the Larsen A and Larsen B iceshelf fronts from the ADD are shown in Figure 1(b); however, ship-based observations in these areas (Gutt et al., 2013) highlight how dynamic the movement of ice-shelf fronts can be....
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...The studies described by Gutt et al. (2013) suggest that the compilation of information in the ADD might sometimes lag behind observations on the ground....
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...…vehicles is now feasible and is already providing extensive new evidence about changes in benthic community structure in areas where ice shelves have collapsed in the past, including on changes in the population size of selected macrobenthic organisms (e.g. Gutt et al., 2013; Dayton et al., 2013)....
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