At the core of plant regeneration, temperature and water supply are critical drivers for seed
dormancy (initiation, break) and germination. Hence, global climate change is altering these …

Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

Several recent climate impact assessments on polar regions have been undertaken,
including the synthesis report on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (AMAP …

Antarctica plays a central role in regulating global climatic and oceanographic patterns and
is an integral part of global climate change discussions. The functioning of Antarctica's …

Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution
of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …

East Antarctica has shown little evidence of warming to date,–with no coherent picture of
how climate change is affecting vegetation,–. In stark contrast, the Antarctic Peninsula …

Terrestrial vegetation communities across Antarctica are characteristically sparse,
presenting a challenge for map** their occurrence using remote sensing at the continent …

The strong air temperature warming between the 1950s and 2016 in the Antarctic Peninsula
region 1 exceeded the global average warming 2, 3 with evident impacts on terrestrial …

Recent climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula is well documented [1–5], with warming,
alongside increases in precipitation, wind strength, and melt season length [1, 6, 7], driving …