Antarctic landfast sea ice (fast ice) is stationary sea ice that is attached to the coast,
grounded icebergs, ice shelves, or other protrusions on the continental shelf. Fast ice forms …

Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

Monitoring the ingestion of microplastics by fish in the environment is crucial to
understanding the risks posed by microplastics in the marine ecosystem. In this study, we …

Monitoring the occurrence of microplastic contamination in the Antarctic area is the key to
implement policy measures for waste regulations in the research stations. Antarctic fish …

The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is among the most rapidly warming regions on Earth,
but has experienced episodic climate change during the past 40 million years. It remains …

The species diversity of the Antarctic fish fauna changed notably during the≈ 40 million
years from the Eocene to the present. A taxonomically restricted and endemic modern fauna …

First published in 1993, The Biology of the Southern Ocean has been referred to as
international research at its best and an invaluable reference. Drawing on the considerable …

The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

This study investigated microplastic (MP) contamination in six tropical fish species of
different mouth sizes and trophic levels from Saint Martin's Island, Bay of Bengal. A total of …

Anthropogenic microparticles (AMs) were found for the first time in specimens of
Trematomus bernacchii collected in 1998 in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) and stored in the …