Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klimpel, Sven (Editor), Kuhn, Thomas (Editor), Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 9
• Subjects: Medicine.; Climate change.; Parasitology.; Animal ecology.; Biodiversity.; Invertebrates.; Biomedicine.; Animal Ecology.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwid...