Using Captain Scott's discovery specimens to unlock the past: has Antarctic cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Jungblut, Anne D., Hawes, Ian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society 2017
• Subjects: Antarctica; cyanobacteria; climatic change; 16S rRNA gene; freshwater; historic collections; Antarctic; Ross Island; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11230; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0833

Evidence of climate-driven environmental change is increasing in Antarctica, and with it comes concern that this will propagate to impacts on biological communities. Recognition and prediction of change needs to incorporate the extent and timescales over which communities vary under extant condition...