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The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities

Citation

Griffiths H (2017). The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities. Version 2.1. Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/doyfzk accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-22.

Description

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).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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

The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.

Method steps

  1. The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  2. Plantae
    rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Intertidal records from the Southern Ocean

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Huw Griffiths
originator
position: Marine Biogeographer
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge
CB3 0ET
Cambridgeshire
GB
email: hjg@bas.ac.uk
Huw Griffiths
metadata author
position: Marine Biogeographer
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge
CB3 0ET
Cambridgeshire
GB
email: hjg@bas.ac.uk
Huw Griffiths
author
position: Marine Biogeographer
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge
CB3 0ET
Cambridgeshire
GB
email: hjg@bas.ac.uk
Catherine Waller
author
position: Marine Biologist
Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Hull
Filey Road
Scarborough
YO11 3AZ
GB
email: c.l.waller@hull.ac.uk
Huw Griffiths
administrative point of contact
position: Marine Biogeographer
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge
CB3 0ET
Cambridgeshire
GB
email: hjg@bas.ac.uk
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