Understanding the vulnerability of marine calcifiers to ocean acidification is a critical issue,
especially in the Southern Ocean (SO), which is likely to be the one of the first, and most …

Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically
structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in …

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 …

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 …

The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is considered vulnerable to irreversible
collapse under future climate trajectories, and its tip** point may lie within the mitigated …

Southern Ocean ecosystems are globally important. Processes in the Antarctic atmosphere,
cryosphere, and the Southern Ocean directly influence global atmospheric and oceanic …

Sporothrix (Ophiostomatales) comprises species that are pathogenic to humans and other
mammals as well as environmental fungi. Developments in molecular phylogeny have …

Climate change is altering geographic and phylogeographic distribution of macroalgae,
laying great impacts on their conservation and sustainable utilization. The potential …

Chilean Patagonia encompasses the two southernmost terrestrial ecoregions of the
temperate forest biome of South America (North-Patagonian and Sub-Antarctic Magellanic) …

The contribution of climate change to shifts in a species' geographic distribution is a critical
and often unresolved ecological question. Climate change in Antarctica is asymmetric, with …