Bester, Marthán N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2265-764X
Wege, Mia
Oosthuizen, W. Chris
Bornemann, Horst
Funding for this research was provided by:
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Grant No. AWI_PS82_03, Grant-No. AWI_PS111_00)
National Research Foundation (93088)
Article History
Received: 30 January 2019
Revised: 26 November 2019
Accepted: 2 December 2019
First Online: 9 December 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The University of Pretoria Animal Ethics Committee cleared the procedures of this project (Number EC082-15) under South African Department of Environmental Affairs Permit 04/2015-16, extended by IEE 14/12/16/5/1/18 for expedition PS111 pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, and Annex II and Annex V (Article 10(2)). Research carried out during expedition PS82 was approved by the German Federal Environmental Agency (“Umweltbundesamt”), Reference No. I 3.5 – 94003-2/142 as of 14 August 2013 under the German acts implementing the Protocol of Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.