At Limits of Life: Multidisciplinary Insights Reveal Environmental Constraints on Biotic Diversity in Continental Antarctica

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Magalhães, Catarina, Stevens, Mark I., Cary, S. Craig, Ball, Becky A., Storey, Bryan C., Wall, Diana H., Türk, Roman, Ruprecht, Ulrike
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Britannia; Darwin Mountains; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446939; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028563; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044578

Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth. In this study, we describe and interpret the linkage between the diversity of...