Figure 5
A schematic overview of the polar benthic community shift in an Antarctic cove under glacier retreat. This study and previous studies5,10,30,31,32,33,35,37,38,39,40,41 were simultaneously analyzed and incorporated to delineate a simplified feature with three stages: (1) early colonized community, (2) rapidly developed community, and (3) diversified and enriched community along with distance from the glacier.
