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Functional group diversity is key to Southern Ocean benthic carbon pathways by Barnes, David K A, Sands, Chester J

“…High latitude benthos are globally important in terms of accumulation and storage of ocean carbon, and the feedback this is likely to have on regional warming…”
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Perspective: Increasing blue carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting by Bax, Narissa, Sands, Chester J., Gogarty, Brendan, Downey, Rachel V., Moreau, Camille V. E., Moreno, Bernabé, Held, Christoph, Paulsen, Maria L., McGee, Jeffrey, Haward, Marcus, Barnes, David K. A.

“…Precautionary conservation and cooperative global governance are needed to protect Antarctic blue carbon: the world's largest increasing natural form of carbon…”
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Blue carbon gains from glacial retreat along Antarctic fjords: What should we expect? by Barnes, David K. A., Sands, Chester J., Cook, Alison, Howard, Floyd, Roman Gonzalez, Alejandro, Muñoz–Ramirez, Carlos, Retallick, Kate, Scourse, James, Van Landeghem, Katrien, Zwerschke, Nadescha

“…Rising atmospheric CO2 is intensifying climate change but it is also driving global and particularly polar greening. However, most blue carbon sinks (that held…”
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The influence of glacial melt and retreat on the nutritional condition of the bivalve Nuculana inaequisculpta (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) in the West Antarctic Peninsula by Bascur, Miguel, Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos, Román-González, Alejandro, Sheen, Katy, Barnes, David K A, Sands, Chester J, Brante, Antonio, Urzúa, Ángel

“…Due to climate change, numerous ice bodies have been lost in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). As a consequence, deglaciation is expected to impact the…”
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Why is the South Orkney Island shelf (the world's first high seas marine protected area) a carbon immobilization hotspot? by Barnes, David K. A., Ireland, Louise, Hogg, Oliver T., Morley, Simon, Enderlein, Peter, Sands, Chester J.

“…The Southern Ocean archipelago, the South Orkney Islands (SOI), became the world's first entirely high seas marine protected area (MPA) in 2010. The SOI…”
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Pragmatic Assignment of Species Groups Based on Primary Species Hypotheses: The Case of a Dominant Component of the Southern Ocean Benthic Fauna by Sands, Chester J., O’Hara, Timothy D., Martín-Ledo, Rafael

“…Ecological studies that enhance our understanding of the structure and function of the natural world rely heavily on accurate species identification. With…”
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Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Southern Ocean benthos: a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding by Kaiser, Stefanie, Brandão, Simone N., Brix, Saskia, Barnes, David K. A., Bowden, David A., Ingels, Jeroen, Leese, Florian, Schiaparelli, Stefano, Arango, Claudia P., Badhe, Renuka, Bax, Narissa, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Brandt, Angelika, Brenke, Nils, Catarino, Ana I., David, Bruno, De Ridder, Chantal, Dubois, Philippe, Ellingsen, Kari E., Glover, Adrian G., Griffiths, Huw J., Gutt, Julian, Halanych, Kenneth M., Havermans, Charlotte, Held, Christoph, Janussen, Dorte, Lörz, Anne-Nina, Pearce, David A., Pierrat, Benjamin, Riehl, Torben, Rose, Armin, Sands, Chester J., Soler-Membrives, Anna, Schüller, Myriam, Strugnell, Jan M., Vanreusel, Ann, Veit-Köhler, Gritta, Wilson, Nerida G., Yasuhara, Moriaki

“…In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and…”
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Evolutionary innovations in Antarctic brittle stars linked to glacial refugia by Lau, Sally C. Y., Strugnell, Jan M., Sands, Chester J., Silva, Catarina N. S., Wilson, Nerida G.

“…The drivers behind evolutionary innovations such as contrasting life histories and morphological change are central questions of evolutionary biology. However,…”
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Extremes in Benthic Ecosystem Services; Blue Carbon Natural Capital Shallower Than 1000 m in Isolated, Small, and Young Ascension Island’s EEZ by Barnes, David K. A., Sands, Chester J., Richardson, Andrew, Smith, Ness

“…Biodiversity tends to decrease with increasing isolation and reduced habitat size, and increase with habitat age. Ascension Island and its seamounts are small,…”
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Phylum Tardigrada: an "individual" approach by Sands, Chester J., McInnes, Sandra J., Marley, Nigel J., Goodall-Copestake, William P., Convey, Peter, Linse, Katrin

“…Phylum Tardigrada consists of ∼1000 tiny, hardy metazoan species distributed throughout terrestrial, limno‐terrestrial and oceanic habitats. Their phylogenetic…”
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A Previously Undescribed Helotialean Fungus That Is Superabundant in Soil Under Maritime Antarctic Higher Plants by Newsham, Kevin K, Cox, Filipa, Sands, Chester J, Garnett, Mark H, Magan, Naresh, Horrocks, Claire A, Dungait, Jennifer A J, Robinson, Clare H

“…We report a previously undescribed member of the Helotiales that is superabundant in soils at two maritime Antarctic islands under Antarctic Hairgrass (…”
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Climate Mitigation through Biological Conservation: Extensive and Valuable Blue Carbon Natural Capital in Tristan da Cunha's Giant Marine Protected Zone by Barnes, David K A, Bell, James B, Bridges, Amelia E, Ireland, Louise, Howell, Kerry L, Martin, Stephanie M, Sands, Chester J, Mora Soto, Alejandra, Souster, Terri, Flint, Gareth, Morley, Simon A

“…Carbon-rich habitats can provide powerful climate mitigation if meaningful protection is put in place. We attempted to quantify this around the Tristan da…”
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Interpopulational differences in the nutritional condition of Aequiyoldia eightsii (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) from the Western Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer by Bascur, Miguel, Morley, Simon A, Meredith, Michael P, Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos P, Barnes, David K A, Schloss, Irene R, Sands, Chester J, Schofield, Oscar, Román-Gonzaléz, Alejandro, Cárdenas, Leyla, Venables, Hugh, Brante, Antonio, Urzúa, Ángel

“…The Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot for environmental change and has a strong environmental gradient from North to South. Here, for the first…”
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Phylogenetic position of Antarctic Scalpelliformes (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) by Linse, Katrin, Jackson, Jennifer A., Fitzcharles, Elaine, Sands, Chester J., Buckeridge, John S.

“…The phylogenetic relationships of seven Antarctic barnacle species, one verrucomorph and six scalpelliforms from the Scotia, Weddell and Ross seas were…”
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Environmental complexity and biodiversity: the multi-layered evolutionary history of a log-dwelling velvet worm in Montane Temperate Australia by Bull, James K, Sands, Chester J, Garrick, Ryan C, Gardner, Michael G, Tait, Noel N, Briscoe, David A, Rowell, David M, Sunnucks, Paul

“…Phylogeographic studies provide a framework for understanding the importance of intrinsic versus extrinsic factors in shaping patterns of biodiversity through…”
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Exploring Pandora's box: potential and pitfalls of low coverage genome surveys for evolutionary biology by Leese, Florian, Brand, Philipp, Rozenberg, Andrey, Mayer, Christoph, Agrawal, Shobhit, Dambach, Johannes, Dietz, Lars, Doemel, Jana S, Goodall-Copstake, William P, Held, Christoph, Jackson, Jennifer A, Lampert, Kathrin P, Linse, Katrin, Macher, Jan N, Nolzen, Jennifer, Raupach, Michael J, Rivera, Nicole T, Schubart, Christoph D, Striewski, Sebastian, Tollrian, Ralph, Sands, Chester J

“…High throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing genetic research. With this "rise of the machines", genomic sequences can be obtained even for…”
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Gene flow in the Antarctic bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii (Jay, 1839) suggests a role for the Antarctic Peninsula Coastal Current in larval dispersal by Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos P, Barnes, David K A, Cárdenas, Leyla, Meredith, Michael P, Morley, Simon A, Roman-Gonzalez, Alejandro, Sands, Chester J, Scourse, James, Brante, Antonio

“…The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) dominates the open-ocean circulation of the Southern Ocean, and both isolates and connects the Southern Ocean…”
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A new brooding species of brittle star (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Antarctic waters by Martín-Ledo, Rafael, Sands, Chester J., López-González, Pablo J.

“…A new brittle star attributable to the genus Ophiacantha is described from Antarctic waters, in the diffuse limits of the Antarctic Polar Front at Shag Rocks,…”
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Dwarf brooder versus giant broadcaster: combining genetic and reproductive data to unravel cryptic diversity in an Antarctic brittle star by Jossart, Quentin, Sands, Chester J, Sewell, Mary A

“…Poecilogony, or multiple developmental modes in a single species, is exceedingly rare. Several species described as poecilogenous were later demonstrated to be…”
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Icebergs, sea ice, blue carbon and Antarctic climate feedbacks by Barnes, David K. A., Fleming, Andrew, Sands, Chester J., Quartino, Maria Liliana, Deregibus, Dolores

“…Sea ice, including icebergs, has a complex relationship with the carbon held within animals (blue carbon) in the polar regions. Sea-ice losses around West…”
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