The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity

P Convey, SL Chown, A Clarke… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming

T Wernberg, BD Russell, PJ Moore, SD Ling… - Journal of experimental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Temperate Australia is a global hotspot for marine biodiversity and its waters have
experienced well-above global average rates of ocean warming. We review the observed …

Antarctic marine biodiversity: adaptations, environments and responses to change

LS Peck - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2018 - library.oapen.org
Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

Antarctica: The final frontier for marine biological invasions

AH McCarthy, LS Peck, KA Hughes… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctica is experiencing significant ecological and environmental change, which may
facilitate the establishment of non‐native marine species. Non‐native marine species will …

Personal care products and steroid hormones in the Antarctic coastal environment associated with two Antarctic research stations, McMurdo Station and Scott Base

P Emnet, S Gaw, G Northcott, B Storey, L Graham - Environmental research, 2015 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) are a major source of micropollutants
to the aquatic environment. Despite intense research on the fate and effects of PPCPs in …

Kelp genes reveal effects of subantarctic sea ice during the Last Glacial Maximum

CI Fraser, R Nikula, HG Spencer, JM Waters - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - pnas.org
The end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) dramatically reshaped temperate ecosystems,
with many species moving poleward as temperatures rose and ice receded. Whereas …

High latitude changes in ice dynamics and their impact on polar marine ecosystems

MA Moline, NJ Karnovsky, Z Brown… - Annals of the New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Polar regions have experienced significant warming in recent decades. Warming has been
most pronounced across the Arctic Ocean Basin and along the Antarctic Peninsula, with …

[HTML][HTML] Potential macroalgal expansion and blue carbon gains with northern Antarctic Peninsula glacial retreat

D Deregibus, GL Campana, C Neder… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot of physical climate change,
especially glacial retreat, particularly in its northern South Shetland Islands (SSI) region …

Kelp forest community structure and demography in Kongsfjorden (Svalbard) across 25 years of Arctic warming

L Düsedau, S Fredriksen, M Brand… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is a hotspot of global warming and many fjords
experience a continuous increase in seawater temperature and glacial melt while sea‐ice …

Megafaunal communities in rapidly warming fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula: hotspots of abundance and beta diversity

LJ Grange, CR Smith - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Glacio-marine fjords occur widely at high latitudes and have been extensively studied in the
Arctic, where heavy meltwater inputs and sedimentation yield low benthic faunal abundance …