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Comparing Sea Anemone Diversity in the Arctic and Antarctic

Comparing Sea Anemone Diversity in the Arctic and Antarctic. Justin Buck and Daphne Fautin Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum. (http://web.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/Image/). What is a Sea Anemone?. Benthic marine animal in the order Actiniaria

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Comparing Sea Anemone Diversity in the Arctic and Antarctic

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  1. Comparing Sea Anemone Diversity in the Arctic and Antarctic Justin Buck and Daphne Fautin Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum (http://web.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/Image/)

  2. What is a Sea Anemone? • Benthic marine animal in the order Actiniaria • Found at all depths in every ocean in the world (http://web.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/Image/)

  3. Benthic Animal Diversity Trends Number of Recorded Benthic Species for Certain Groups in Arctic and Antarctic (Barry & Grebmeier, 1991) • “The Antarctic has much higher species richness yet lacks the ecological diversity of the Arctic” (Dayton, et al., 1994: p. 90)

  4. Hexacorallians of the World • http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm • Website created in Daphne Fautin’s lab

  5. Preliminary Data • More diversity is shown in Arctic than Antarctic • What will normalizations do to this data?

  6. Normalizations • Area: • Arctic and Antarctic Oceans • Effort • Number of publications • Number of Expeditions (http://www2.kah-bonn.de/1/16/0e.htm) (http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/expedition/challenger_1872-1876/challenger.html)

  7. Area Normalization • Used data in latitudinal ranges from 50º-90º North and South • The Arctic Ocean is about 1/4th the size of the Antarctic Ocean (Garrison, 1996) (http://www2.kah-bonn.de/1/16/0e.htm)

  8. Publication Normalization • Relationship of genera per publication and species per publication

  9. Expeditions Normalization • There have been 4 times more expeditions to the Arctic than to the Antarctic

  10. Summary of Normalizations • Area • Arctic greater diversity • Publications • Arctic species greater diversity • Antarctic genera greater diversity • Expeditions • Antarctic greater diversity

  11. Original descriptions per year

  12. Conclusion • The Arctic seems to be much more diverse than the Antarctic

  13. Further Study • Compare diversity of sea anemones in every ocean in the world • Compare the diversity at different depths as well

  14. Acknowledgments Suman Kansakar Ha-Rim Cha Abby Reft P.E.E.T. Grant Matt Kost Bryan Tangney Amanda Schmidt

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