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Free-living terrestrial mites (Acari) have persisted through numerous glacial cycles in Antarctica. Very little is known, however, of their genetic diversity and distribution, particularly within the Ross Sea region. To redress this gap, we sampled mites throughout the Ross Sea region…
Antarctic and Southern Ocean science is vital to understanding natural variability, the processes that govern global change and the role of humans in the Earth and climate system. The potential for new knowledge to be gained from future Antarctic science is substantial. Therefore…
The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the contemporary Antarctic terrestrial and marine biotas … reveals many components of ancient origin. For large elements of the terrestrial biota, long-term … isolation over timescales from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of years…
Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems are noted for their relative simplicity and limited trophic structure. In this context, knowledge of biotic … interactions in structuring terrestrial soil communities would seem beneficial from a theoretical perspective as well as from a conservation … perspective.
Reduced reproductive success in flipper-banded King Penguins compared to unbanded … penguins has been reported but differences in survival were not found. The “worst-case” survival analysis done by previous researchers assumed that death occurred at the beginning … of the tail chain of absences.