Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica

JM Strugnell, HV McGregor, NG Wilson… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is causing observable changes in Antarctica and the
Southern Ocean including increased air and ocean temperatures, glacial melt leading to sea …

Meta‐analysis of Antarctic phylogeography reveals strong sampling bias and critical knowledge gaps

XP Liu, GA Duffy, WS Pearman, LR Pertierra… - Ecography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Much of Antarctica's highly endemic terrestrial biodiversity is found in small ice‐free patches.
Substantial genetic differentiation has been detected among populations across spatial …

Past climate-driven range shifts structuring intraspecific biodiversity levels of the giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) at global scales

J Assis, F Alberto, EC Macaya, N Castilho Coelho… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The paradigm of past climate-driven range shifts structuring the distribution of marine
intraspecific biodiversity lacks replication in biological models exposed to comparable …

Barriers to gene flow in the deepest ocean ecosystems: Evidence from global population genomics of a cosmopolitan amphipod

JNJ Weston, EL Jensen, MSR Hasoon, JJN Kitson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The deepest marine ecosystem, the hadal zone, hosts endemic biodiversity resulting from
geographic isolation and environmental selection pressures. However, the pan-ocean …

Revealing the long-term trend of the global-scale Ginkgo biloba distribution and the impact of future climate change based on the ensemble modeling

L Wang, J Liu, J Liu, H Wei, Y Fang, D Wang… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Rational conservation of endangered plants is often challenging. Ginkgo biloba L., a relict
plant in the Mesozoic, is known as the world's famous “living fossil”. To rationally protect G …

Animal survival strategies in Neoproterozoic ice worlds

HJ Griffiths, RJ Whittle, EG Mitchell - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the first appearance of animals is of crucial importance for understanding the
evolution of life on Earth. Although the fossil record places the earliest metazoans at 572 …

Limits and convergence properties of the sequentially Markovian coalescent

TPP Sellinger, D Abu‐Awad… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Several methods based on the sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) make use of full
genome sequence data from samples to infer population demographic history including past …

Taxonomic and functional diversity of subtidal benthic communities associated with hard substrates at Crozet archipelago (sub-Antarctic, Southern Ocean)

Y Lelièvre, L Specq, T Lamy, A Boyé… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sub-Antarctic coastal marine ecosystems harbor rich and diverse benthic communities.
Despite their ecological uniqueness and vulnerability to global changes, studies on benthic …

Genetic impacts of physical disturbance processes in coastal marine ecosystems

E Parvizi, CI Fraser, JM Waters - Journal of Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Coastal habitats are among the most dynamic environments on earth and are highly
vulnerable to large‐scale physical disturbance. Genetic studies of nearshore marine species …

One Antarctic slug to confuse them all: the underestimated diversity of Doris kerguelenensis

PJ Maroni, BJ Baker, AL Moran, HA Woods… - Invertebrate …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
The Antarctic marine environment, although rich in life, is predicted to experience rapid and
significant effects from climate change. Despite a revolution in the approaches used to …