Antarctic environmental change and biological responses
Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change. Their native biota has adapted to the region’s extreme conditions over many millions of years. This unique biota is now challenged by environmental change and the direct impacts of human activity. The terrestrial...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:522396 2023-05-15T13:41:43+02:00 Antarctic environmental change and biological responses Convey, Peter Peck, Lloyd S. 2019-11-27 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522396/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522396/1/eaaz0888.full.pdf https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaaz0888 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522396/1/eaaz0888.full.pdf Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 Peck, Lloyd S. orcid:0000-0003-3479-6791 . 2019 Antarctic environmental change and biological responses. Science Advances, 5 (11), eaaz0888. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0888 <https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0888> cc_by_4 CC-BY Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0888 2023-02-04T19:47:50Z Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change. Their native biota has adapted to the region’s extreme conditions over many millions of years. This unique biota is now challenged by environmental change and the direct impacts of human activity. The terrestrial biota is characterized by considerable physiological and ecological flexibility and is expected to show increases in productivity, population sizes and ranges of individual species, and community complexity. However, the establishment of non-native organisms in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems may present an even greater threat than climate change itself. In the marine environment, much more limited response flexibility means that even small levels of warming are threatening. Changing sea ice has large impacts on ecosystem processes, while ocean acidification and coastal freshening are expected to have major impacts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ocean acidification Sea ice Southern Ocean Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Southern Ocean Science Advances 5 11 eaaz0888 |
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Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change. Their native biota has adapted to the region’s extreme conditions over many millions of years. This unique biota is now challenged by environmental change and the direct impacts of human activity. The terrestrial biota is characterized by considerable physiological and ecological flexibility and is expected to show increases in productivity, population sizes and ranges of individual species, and community complexity. However, the establishment of non-native organisms in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems may present an even greater threat than climate change itself. In the marine environment, much more limited response flexibility means that even small levels of warming are threatening. Changing sea ice has large impacts on ecosystem processes, while ocean acidification and coastal freshening are expected to have major impacts. |
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