The Antarctic ecosystem
The aim of the present paper is to summarize the broad scope of this Discussion and to attempt to draw certain final generalizations about the Antarctic as a biological zone. It is almost impossible to omit all mention of the sea from a discussion of Antarctic biology, and consequently a review of A...
| Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Royal Society
1967
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526672/ https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0025 |
| Summary: | The aim of the present paper is to summarize the broad scope of this Discussion and to attempt to draw certain final generalizations about the Antarctic as a biological zone. It is almost impossible to omit all mention of the sea from a discussion of Antarctic biology, and consequently a review of Antarctic oceanography and of food chains and biomasses at the various marine trophic levels will be given first. This leads in turn to a consideration of the interrelationships between sea, land and fresh water, and thence to an assessment of the total ecosystem. |
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