The bivalve Laternula elliptica: physiological and molecular response to changing coastal Antarctic environments

• Main Author: Husmann, Gunnar
• Other Authors: Melzner, Frank, Rosenstiel, Philip
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: thesis; ddc:570; Antarctic Peninsula; bivalve; transcriptome; hemocytes; oxidative stress; Antarctic; The Antarctic; King George Island; Potter Cove; 25 de Mayo; isla 25 de Mayo; Antarc*; Isla 25 de Mayo
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-115100; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00011510; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dissertation_derivate_00004744/Dissertation_Gunnar_Husmann.pdf

Increasing temperatures and glacier-disintegration at the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) are presently altering environmental conditions in shallow coastal areas. Rising water temperatures, enhanced ice scouring impacts as well as increasing input of inorganic sediments from melt water runoff are...