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The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography
of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities
Huw Griffiths1, Catherine Waller2
1 British Antarctic Survey, CB3 0ET, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2 Centre for
Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Filey Road, YO11 3AZ,
Scarborough, United Kingdom
Corresponding author(s): Huw Griffiths ([email protected])
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Griffiths & Waller (In Press) The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and
Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities. Journal of
Biogeography Griffiths & Waller (In Press)
Abstract
We created a database of 3,902 records of high southern latitude intertidal occurrences for
1,416 species/taxa, verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial
Board 2015), from 229 locations (Figure 1). Records date back to 1897. The majority of data
came from published manuscripts and additional digital records from Smithsonian Antarctic
Invertebrates (http://invertebrates.si.edu/antiz/) and for South Africa, Natural Geography in
Shore Areas (NaGISA) from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (Rigby et
al., 2005). A record was considered to be intertidal if it was found between the high tide mark
down to a maximum of 3m depth (allowing for variable tidal range in Antarctica).
Keywords: Occurrence?
Molluscs?
Kelp?
Intertidal?
Beach?
Southern Ocean, VEGETATION?
COASTAL HABITAT?
SOUTHERN OCEAN?
ANTARCTICA
Project details
Project title: The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of
Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities
Personnel: Huw Griffiths
Funding: This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council through the
British Antarctic Survey
Study area descriptions/descriptor: In this study we examine all available whole
community intertidal records from the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic (following the
geographic definitions used by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Biogeographic Atlas). All islands south of the Polar Front are considered to be Antarctic
(Bouvet Island, South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, South Sandwich Islands, South
Shetland Islands) as described in Linse et al. (2006). All other islands within the influence of
the Circumpolar Current are regarded as Sub-Antarctic (Figure 1).
Design description: The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole
communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa. We
compiled data for comparison from southern South America, the Falkland Islands, Tristan da
Cunha, South Africa, Tasmania and southern New Zealand, although data from these
comparison regions are not exhaustive.
Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource.do?r=bas_intertidal
Taxonomic coverage
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia, Plantae
Spatial coverage
General spatial coverage: Intertidal records from the Southern Ocean
Coordinates: 79°4'48''S and 39°12'36''S Latitude; 98°16'48''E and 97°11'24''E Longitude
Temporal coverage: 1897 - 2014
Natural collections description
Parent collection identifier: Not Applicable
Collection name: BAS_Intertidal
Collection identifier: BAS_Intertidal
Specimen preservation method: No treatment
Methods
Method step description: The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole
communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.
Study extent description: In this study we examine all available whole community
intertidal records from the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic (following the geographic definitions
used by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Biogeographic Atlas). All islands
south of the Polar Front are considered to be Antarctic (Bouvet Island, South Georgia, South
Orkney Islands, South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands) as described in Linse et al.
(2006). All other islands within the influence of the Circumpolar Current are regarded as
Sub-Antarctic (Figure 1).
Sampling description: The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole
communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.
Datasets
Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive The First Comprehensive Description of the
Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/archive.do?r=bas_intertidal
Publication date of data: 2015-11-18
Language: English
Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-11-18
Hierarchy level: Dataset