G.D.F. Wilson: Antarctic Biodiversity: Previous "Insights" Overlooked ...

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G.D.F. Wilson: Antarctic Biodiversity: Previous "Insights" Overlooked. A reply to A.
Brandt, A. Gooday et al. Nature 447: 307 (2007) Text note 6. The title of BG "First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of
the Southern Ocean deep sea" is perpelexing when one realises that Southern Ocean
and the deep sea has been studied for over a century and a half. Below is an ad hoc
selection of literature from my own database, which has mostly references concering
Isopoda, but also includes references on deep sea benthic ecology and biogeography.
Although many of the early articles are taxonomic in nature, most dealt with animals
below 200m (nominally deep-sea) and included many observations on biology and
distribution, and are part of the knowledge that has built up over the period. Brandt,
Gooday et al. have been actively publishing on Antarctic faunas for over a decade so
by their own action, BG is not "first insights". More than quibbling about words, this
observation indicates that the authors have ignored many papers that have covered
most of the same issues claimed in their paper as their own.
This list is organised by date, and alphabetical within years. It is not comprehensive,
and is only a sampling of the total literature on the Antarctic Benthos.
1. Studer, T. Isopoden, gesammelt w

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