Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Welch, Kathleen A., Lyons, W. Berry
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; New Zealand; Griffith; Wright Valley; Weller; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195150599.003.0019

Because polar regions may amplify what would be considered small to moderate climate changes at lower latitudes, Weller (1998) proposed that the monitoring of high latitude regions should yield early evidence of global climate change. In addition to the climate changes themselves, the connections be...