Phytoplankton ecology and biogeochemistry of the warming Antarctic sea-ice zone

• Main Author: Annett, Amber
• Other Authors: Ganeshram, Raja, Darling, Kate, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2013
• Subjects: Diatoms; Radium; Climate change; Ryder Bay; Western Antarctic Peninsula; phytoplankton; Global Change Research Institute; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Adelaide Island; Ryder; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8311

Marine productivity along the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is declining. The WAP is site of the fastest regional warming in the southern hemisphere, and has experienced atmospheric and oceanic temperature increases leading to increased glacial inputs and reduced winter sea-ice cover. Sea-ice is...