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The first year of life is critical for large mammals to acquire foraging and predator avoidance skills. Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) pups wean at approximately three weeks of age and depart on their first foraging trips in midsummer…
The analysis of trophically complex mathematical ecosystem models is typically carried out … using numerical techniques because it is considered that the number and nonlinear nature of the equations … involved makes the use of analytic techniques virtually impossible. In particular…
In the light of the predicted global climate change, it is essential that the status and … diversity of polar microbial communities is described and understood. In the … present study, molecular tools were used to investigate the marine eukaryotic … communities of Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica…
Antarctic ecosystems represent one extreme of the continuum of environmental … conditions across the planet. To our eyes, the environment appears harsh but, even … though terrestrial biological diversity is restricted, a wide range of life is present … and, locally, thrives. In the Antarctic…