Ecophysiology and ecological impacts of an Antarctic invader: the chironomid, Eretmoptera murphyi.

• Main Author: Bartlett, Jesamine C.
• Other Authors: Hayward, Scott, Convey, Pete, Viant, Mark, nerc
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: QH Natural history; QH301 Biology; QL Zoology; QP Physiology; QR Microbiology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Signy Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9745/1.hassmallThumbnailVersion/Bartlett2019PhD.pdf; http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9745/; http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9745/1/Bartlett2019PhD.pdf

Antarctica has entered a period of rapid, and potentially drastic, change. The combined pressures of anthropogenic climate change, which disproportionately affects the polar regions, and an increase in human activity and connectivity in and around the Antarctic, is opening the least invaded continen...