title: Marine biology: new light on growth in the cold.
abstract: The recent collapse of the Antarctic Larson ice shelves revealed a slow growing benthic community on the seabed below. But a revisit just four years later revealed rapid growth of glass sponges. Antarctic continental shelves could become sites of significant carbon sequestration.
authors.affiliation: British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK. dkab@bas.ac.uk
authors.forename: David K A
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Barnes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018533:Biomass; D057231:Climate Change; D011161:Porifera / Q000502:physiology*