Why is the South Orkney Island shelf (the world's first high seas marine protected area) a carbon immobilization hotspot?
The Southern Ocean archipelago, the South Orkney Islands (SOI), became the world's first entirely high seas marine protected area (MPA) in 2010. The SOI continental shelf (~44 000 km2), was less than half covered by grounded ice sheet during glaciations, is biologically rich and a key area of b...
Published in: | Global Change Biology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Wiley
2016
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511995/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/gcb.13157/abstract |