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Developing water quality guidelines for Antarctic marine environments requires understanding sensitivity of biota to contaminant exposure. Toxicity tests with Antarctic … invertebrates have shown response times to metal exposure takes far longer than the durations of standard bioassay methods.

Major stratospheric warmings (MSWs) are one of the most important phenomena of wintertime Arctic stratospheric variability. They consist of a warming of the Arctic stratosphere and a deceleration of the polar night jet…

Stressors associated with climate change, and contaminants resulting from the activities of humans, are affecting organisms and ecosystems worldwide. Until recently, the impacts of these stressors on marine ecosystems have largely been examined in isolation.

Stressors associated with climate change, and contaminants resulting from the activities of humans, are affecting organisms and ecosystems worldwide. Until recently, the impacts of these stressors on marine ecosystems have largely been examined in isolation. However, with predicted climate change…

Stressors associated with global climate change and local human activities are affecting marine organisms worldwide. Stressors include changes in temperature, salinity and acidification, in addition to contaminants including metals and hydrocarbons.

Understanding the sensitivities of Antarctic organisms to metal exposure is essential when developing protective environmental quality criteria for Antarctica. This study takes a community based approach to determine the potential effects of metal contamination on coastal Antarctic zooplankton.

Metals at contaminated sites in Antarctica rarely occur in isolation, but rather occur in complex mixtures with a number of contaminants. Despite this, the majority of previous ecotoxicological studies on Antarctic marine biota have investigated the toxicity of single metals only.